SHIMOMURA, Ikuo

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  • Position:
    Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. (Engineering), University of Tokyo
  Speciality:
  Sociology, Public Administration, Administrative Law
• Current Research Interests:
  Urban Problems and Legal Regulation, The Role of Rules
• Professional Career:

  1976	Joined the Ministry of Construction
  1979	Entered Cornell Graduate School of Sociology
  1981	Graduated from Cornell Graduate School of Sociology
  1983	Seconded to the Prime Minister's Office
  1984	Returned to the Ministry of Construction
  1988	Joined the faculty of the Graduate School for Policy Studies, Saitama University as Associate Professor
  1997	Joined GRIPS as Associate Professor
  1999	Earned a Ph.D in engineering from the University of Tokyo
  2001	Promoted to full Professor. Became a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota and Carleton College
  2010	Became a visiting scholar at Carleton College

• Selected publications:
  2005 "Proposal of the Right Rearrangement Program" Urban Housing Sciences, pp.127-138 (2006 award by the Association of Urban Housing Science)
  
  2001 Replotting System of the Land Readjustment Project, Shinzansha (2001 award by City Planning Association of Japan, 2003 award by Japan Association for Real Estate Sciences, and 2003 award by the Association of Urban Housing Sciences)
  
  1999 "Clearing off and Evaluation of Land of the Land Readjustment Project" Property Assessment Policy, pp.73-86 (2009 award by the Association of Property Assessment Policy)
  
  1998a "Housing Functions and Modern Society (1)" Housing vol.47, pp.48-55
  
  1998b "Housing Functions and Modern Society (2)" Housing vol.47, pp.91-98
  
  1998c "Housing Functions and Modern Society (3)" Housing vol.47, pp.46-53
  
  1996a "In pursuit of Policy Concept (1)" Study of Autonomy, Vol.72, No.2, pp.103-115
  
  1996b "In pursuit of Policy Concept (2)" Study of Autonomy Vol.72, No.5, pp.94-104
• Social contributions:
  Worked as instructor at the schools of the Ministry of Construction, local governments, and JICA.
  
  Served as member of committees related to urban planning in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and many local governments and as trustee of foundations related to urban planning.
• e-mail: sh