(a)Summary
- AYA SAKAI is Professor in the Department of Urban Study at Tokyo City University. She was previously Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and City Planning at Hokkaido University (2007-2015). She received her PhD from University of London in 2005, and her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University in 1996. As visiting researcher, she has spent a year in Oxford (1998-1999) and half a year in University of California, Los Angeles (2001-2002), with funding supports from each institution. With her architect qualification (qualification number:245754), she has various practical experiences in architecture at Japan Railway Company in Tokyo (1989-1993) and then landscape architecture at Sasaki Associates in Boston (1996-1998).
She is author of forty-five refereed articles in international journals, six book chapters, four major research papers. Her PhD thesis is awarded by City Planning Institute of Japan in 2006. She has also published widely in practitioner journals and outlets. Her main research specialisms include: - (1) Public Space
- (2) Public Private Partnership
- (3) Urban Landscape
(b)Award
- The Best PhD Thesis of the year 2006 awarded by City Planning Institute of Japan
- The Shimoyama Award 2007 awarded by Japan Landscape Association
- The Best Paper of the year 2008 awarded by City Planning Institute of Japan
(c)Major Peer Reviewed Publications
- Sakai, Aya (2022) 'Design Standard For Spacial Planning of Privately Owned Public Space: Focus on New York City zoning resolution amendment in 2007' AIJ J. Technol. Des. Vol. 28, No.68, pp418-423, Feb., 2022
- Sakai, Aya (2017) eTransition and Implementation of Planning Obligation in England: Focusing on park improvement initiated by section 106 agreementf Journal of Architecture and Planning 82(739) pp.2343-2349.
- Sakai, Aya(2015) eInclusive Design Developed in Urban Built Environment ? Focus on planning and designing for London Olympic/Paralympic Gamef Journal of Architecture and Planning 80(709) pp.669-676.
- Sakai, Aya(2014) eManagement of Privately Owned Public Space Designated by Tokuteigaiku System ?Towards Sustainable Management of Planning Gain Public Spaces-e Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 49(3) pp.1023-1028.
- Sakai, Aya(2014) ePlanning Policy for the Management of Open Spaces in UK between 1995 and 2010f Journal for Environmental Information Science 28 pp.319-324.
- Sakai, Aya(2012) eProgression of Built Environment Education in UK since 2000f Journal of Architecture and Planning 77(674) pp.847-854.
- Sakai, Aya (2011) eRe-assessing London Squares: Developing preservation policy, c.1880-1931f Town Planning Review, vol.82 no.6, pp.615-637
- Sakai, Aya (2011) eThe Hybridisation of Ideas on Public Parks: Introduction of western thought and practice into 19C Japanf Planning Perspectives, vol.26 no.3, pp.347-371
- Sakai, Aya (2010) eUrban Landscape and Amenity in the Modernizing City: 19C Yokohama Foreign Settlement Japanf HGRG (Historical Geography Research Group in Royal Geographical Society) Series, pp.87-94
- Sakai, Aya (2009) eStudy on Support System for Design Control in UK Planning System since 1990s: Conditions of the establishment of CABEf in Journal of Architecture and Planning 74(635) pp.153-160
- Sakai, Aya (2008) eDesign Guiding and Review System to Improve Development Design ?Implementations of the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment in UKf in Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 43(3), pp.643-648
- Sakai, Aya (2008) eFunding System for Regeneration Schemes of Public Parks: Case of National Lottery Fund in UKf in Landscape Research Japan 71(5), pp.723-728
- Kobayashi, Rinako & Sakai, Aya (2008) eStudy on transition of Regenerating for City Park in Sapporo Cityf in Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 43(3), pp.583-588.
- Imrie, Rob & Sakai, Aya (2007) eGovernance in private-public spacesfin Town & Country Planning, pp.448-450
- Sakai, Aya (2007) eEmergence of Public Open Space in the 19th century of Londonf in Re-structured Urban Space, (Ed.) Kuroda, Syouzou, Tokyo: Sensyudai Publication, pp.169-194
- Sakai, Aya (2007) eFunding system for regeneration of urban parks in UK: National Lottery Fundf in Parks and Open Space Research Institute Report, (Ed.) Parks and Open Space Research Institute, pp.128-146
- Sakai, Aya (2007) eHyde Park and Regentfs Parkf in Eikoku no Teien, (Ed.) Eikoku no Teien Hensyuu-inkai, Tokyo: Interaction Publication, pp.135-163
- Sakai, Aya (2006) eRegeneration of Urban Public Open Space: the Case of Russell square Redevelopment Project in London' in Landscape Research Japan 69(5), pp.651-654
- Sakai, Aya (2005) eLondon Millennium Experience: Relation to Regenerating Greenwich Peninsulaf in City Planning Review 54(2), pp.49-52
- Sakai, Aya (2004) eUrban Parks and Green Spaces Management: An International Comparisonf in Grass is greenerc?, (Ed.) CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), pp.12-19
- Sakai, Aya (2004) eThe Influences of London Squares to the Formation of Modern Urban Parksf in Landscape Research Japan 67 (5), pp.439-442
- Sakai, Aya (2003) ePreservation of Small Urban Open Spaces: case of London Squaresf in Journal of City Planning Institute of Japan 38 (3), pp.613-618
- Sakai, Aya (2001) eEden projectf in Nikkei Architecture 70, pp.21-23
(d)Summary of Research Grants
- 2020-2022, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), A Study of Methods for Sustainable Private Management of Privately Owned Public Space Created Through Urban Development, research project.
- 2016-2019, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Public Private Partnership Management of Public Space: UK and US Initiatives, research project.
- 2013-2015, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Creation and Management of Urban Amenity through Planning Gain, research project.
- 2020, Daiichi Life Group Foundation, Sustainable Management of Cemetery Focus on US Rural Cemetery.
- 2014, Union Foundation for Engineering Culture, Universal Design in Landscape Design: Focus on London Paralympic Project, research project.
- 2013, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Publication Grant.
- 2013, Asahi Glass Foundation, Conditions and Issues around Privately Managed Public Spaces initiated by Urban Regeneration Project, research project.
- 2011-2012, JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research, Invitation of Professor Carmona, Bartlett School of Planning, University of College of London.
- 2010- 2013, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Transition of Open Space strategy in UK and US 1965-1995.
- 2009-2010, Fulbright Grant, The management of privately owned public space in NY.
- 2008- 2009, The Shimoyama Grants, Japan Landscape Association
- 2007-2009, Research Fund of British Academy / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, The management and maintenance of public space in Britain and Japan.
- 2006- 2008, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Design review system and educational methods of CABE.
- 2006- 2007, Research Fund of the Parks and Open Space Research Institute, Funding system for regeneration of urban parks in UK: National Lottery Fund.
- 2006- 2007, Daiwa Foundation small grant, Comparison study on management of public spaces in London and Tokyo.
- 2001- 2002, Royal Geography Society small grant, Formation of Japanese modern park in Meiji period.
- 2000- 2001, Matsushita International Fund, Transition of concept of public in British society.
- 1999- 2002, British Council Overseas Research Scholarship, Urban Open Spaces in the Modern Metropolis.
(e)Major Recent Esteem Indicators
- 2022 to date: member of the Committee of City Planning in Itabashi borough, Tokyo
- 2021 to date: member of the Committee of City Planning in Setagaya borough, Tokyo
- 2021 to date: member of the Committee of Cultural Assets in Agency for Cultural Affairs
- 2020 to date: member of the Study Group for Urban Policy under Covid 19 along with DX in Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- 2019 to date: member of the Committee of Town Scape Management in Taito borough, Tokyo
- 2018 to date: member of the committee of the Urban Infrastructure in Housing Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- 2017 to date: member of the committee of the City Planning Department in Kanagawa Prefecture Council
- 2017 to date: member of the board of the City Planning Institute of Japan
- 2017 to date: member of the committee of the Park Management Department in Yokohama City Council
- 2016 to date: member of the committee of the Townscape Management Department in Shinjyuku City Council
- 2007 to 2017: member of the committee of the Public Land Management Department in the Ministry of Finance, Hokkaido Local Finance Bureau