A peer-reviewed academic paper summarising the research findings of Kaori ISAWA, our PhD student (JSPS Research Fellow DC and Research Assistant at the University of Tokyo’s Collaborative Research Organisation for Inclusive Engineering), has been awarded the 2021 Annual Outstanding Paper Award by the City Planning Institute of Japan. The title of the paper is “Optimal Ratio for Renovating Historic Architectures into Profit-making Facilities with Conservation“

　The paper was highly commended for its originality in identifying the parametric conditions under which historic buildings can be preserved in an economically rational manner, based on an optimal decision-making model, and for verifying these findings using actual case studies from Kyoto City. This year’s paper award was selected from a total of 182 papers published in the Journal of Urban Planning between January and December 2021, with seven papers recognised for their outstanding content.