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Urban Design Lab
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The lab studies urban design, exploring how to design the relationship between urban space and people.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing the relationship between the "things" and the "people" of the city.
The Urban Design Lab studies design methods that improve the relationship between the "things" and the "people" that shape a city.
Crossing the boundaries between architecture, civil engineering, and landscape architecture, the lab's basic approach is to re-examine the built environment that forms a city from a human perspective.
Starting from reading the topography and history layered in a city and observing what is actually happening on site, the lab aims to be a place where students find their own research themes.
Key terms
- Built environment
- Everything that shapes a city. It is the object that the lab re-examines as a whole, across architecture, civil engineering, and landscape architecture.
- Urban shrinkage
- The process by which a city contracts because of major social changes such as population decline. The lab explores what urban space should be like to absorb this change.
- Brownfield
- An idle former factory site. Its regeneration is considered a challenge common to advanced industrial countries.
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The lab re-examines the built environment that shapes cities from a human perspective, envisions urban space, and considers the systems, methods, and processes needed to realize it. Its research starts from reading topography and history and from observing the sites of the city.
*Illustrative imageUrban design in response to population decline and urban shrinkage
The lab explores what urban space should be like in order to absorb major social changes such as urban shrinkage. It studies shrinking cities in the US, such as Detroit and Buffalo, and industrial cities in western Japan where population decline is expected.
*Illustrative imagePublic space created by private development
The lab is interested in how publicly accessible open spaces and indoor public spaces created by private urban development are used, and in their relationship to parks and streets. It examines how to evaluate the quality of the public realm and the institutional issues involved, and hopes to carry out surveys and activities in central Fukuoka in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders.
*Illustrative imageRegeneration of former factory sites and ports
The regeneration of idle former factory sites (brownfields) and of ports that have lost their logistics function is a challenge common to advanced industrial countries. Design management methods that address these complex issues, such as reusing industrial heritage and restoring the relationship between the waterfront and the city, are needed.
*Illustrative imageReading how urban space is formed
Even in urban areas that seem to have no distinctive features, urban space has taken its present form through a variety of formation processes. The lab regards reading how a town was formed and understanding the principles of its spatial structure as the starting point of urban design from now on.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban Design Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.
- ProfessorTakeshi Kurose
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Public Space near Barley - geograph.org.uk - 3176990” Chris Heaton / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Urban design in response to population decline and urban shrinkage: “Urban design In IRAN-Qom City-2016 & 2017-Canon Photos-Mostafa Meraji 07” Mostafameraji / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Public space created by private development: “NTT DoCoMo Kyūshū Kashii Building the canopy 20-1 Chihaya 4-chōme Hiagashi-ku Fukuoka 20231102” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Regeneration of former factory sites and ports: “Dundee Waterfront Site 6 redevelopment May 2018” Laerol / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Reading how urban space is formed: “Aerial view of Houston City Hall - 01” Owen Johnson, photographer. Historic American Buildings Survey, Heritage Documentation Programs, a division of the U.S. National Park Service / Public domain (cropped)
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