Reina Ichii
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reina Ichii |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ichii |
| SIGNATURE | ICHII R |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT Europe |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0082-0546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Differentiated Resilience
Informal settlements are central to sustainable urban futures, yet their diverse resilience pathways remain underexplored. This gap enables typology-blind policies that misdiagnose challenges and undermine community capacities. This paper develops and validates the Typology-Sensitive Framework for Socio-Technical Adaptation to address this. Applying this framework through a community-based mixed-methods approach in two distinct settlements in Kum…
Beyond self-help
Residents of informal settlements in the Global South actively produce their own infrastructure in response to state failure, yet the academic and policy vocabulary used to describe these efforts often lacks spatial and strategic nuance. This paper challenges monolithic terms like ‘self-help’ by developing a new typology of grassroots infrastructure provision. We argue that community-led action operates according to one of three distinct spatial …
Redefining urban liveability through community voices
This paper argues that ‘urban liveability’ is not a neutral metric but a powerful political discourse that is mobilised to advance specific urban visions while actively marginalising informal settlements. Challenging the hegemony of Western-centric frameworks that dominate urban policy, this study uses participatory methods to build a theory of liveability from the ground up, based on the lived experiences of residents in two of Kumasi, Ghana’s i…
Exploring a family, work, and community model of work–family gains and strains
Much of the work-family literature focuses on job or family characteristics that impact on work-life interaction. A small body of research takes a wider perspective, highlighting the importance of community characteristics. This study builds on, and extends, this research by examining the way work and community characteristics may interact in their influence on work-family interaction. Building on Voydanoff's work, this study examined whether com…
Beyond self-help
Residents of informal settlements in the Global South actively produce their own infrastructure in response to state failure, yet the academic and policy vocabulary used to describe these efforts often lacks spatial and strategic nuance. This paper challenges monolithic terms like ‘self-help’ by developing a new typology of grassroots infrastructure provision. We argue that community-led action operates according to one of three distinct spatial …
Exploring a family, work, and community model of work–family gains and strains
Much of the work-family literature focuses on job or family characteristics that impact on work-life interaction. A small body of research takes a wider perspective, highlighting the importance of community characteristics. This study builds on, and extends, this research by examining the way work and community characteristics may interact in their influence on work-family interaction. Building on Voydanoff's work, this study examined whether com…
Differentiated Resilience
Informal settlements are central to sustainable urban futures, yet their diverse resilience pathways remain underexplored. This gap enables typology-blind policies that misdiagnose challenges and undermine community capacities. This paper develops and validates the Typology-Sensitive Framework for Socio-Technical Adaptation to address this. Applying this framework through a community-based mixed-methods approach in two distinct settlements in Kum…
Beyond self-help
Residents of informal settlements in the Global South actively produce their own infrastructure in response to state failure, yet the academic and policy vocabulary used to describe these efforts often lacks spatial and strategic nuance. This paper challenges monolithic terms like ‘self-help’ by developing a new typology of grassroots infrastructure provision. We argue that community-led action operates according to one of three distinct spatial …
Redefining urban liveability through community voices
This paper argues that ‘urban liveability’ is not a neutral metric but a powerful political discourse that is mobilised to advance specific urban visions while actively marginalising informal settlements. Challenging the hegemony of Western-centric frameworks that dominate urban policy, this study uses participatory methods to build a theory of liveability from the ground up, based on the lived experiences of residents in two of Kumasi, Ghana’s i…
Human settlement (3 works) · Informal settlements (3 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Adaptation (eye) (1 work) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Employment and Welfare Studies (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (1 work) · Grassroots (1 work)