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Urban Space Studies Lab
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An urban history lab that reads how cities came into being through their history.
AboutAbout the lab
Seeing a city's past and future from the ground beneath our feet.
The Urban Space Studies Lab studies how cities have been built and rebuilt, from the standpoint of urban history.
As cities and regions around the world modernize, they tend to lose their distinctive character, and urban space is becoming increasingly uniform.
The lab therefore uses urban history research to clarify the actual state of urban culture, and focuses on passing that culture on through historic community development activities.
The lab's research looks to the past, present, and future of urban space.
Key terms
- Urban history
- A field that investigates, from a historical perspective, through what processes urban space was formed and how it has changed
- Historic community development
- Community development activities that make use of historic and cultural heritage, carried out in partnership with local residents
- Place-based community ties
- The ties between people that arise from living in the same place
ResearchResearch themes
The ground beneath our feet today is a place where people of other eras once walked and shaped their lives. This lab looks at how people behave in urban space and, with urban history at its core, pursues research that looks to the past, present, and future of urban space.
*Illustrative imageComparative Urban History of East Asia
The lab compares cities in East Asia, including Japan, to investigate through what processes today's urban space was formed and how it was reorganized over time. Key concepts are the structure of space and society, land ownership, and place-based community ties.
*Illustrative imageNational Transformation in the Modern Era and Urban Reorganization
The lab investigates, from the standpoint of urban history, how cities were reorganized in step with national transformation in the modern era. Key concepts are urban renovation, urban regeneration, and the transition to modernity.
*Illustrative imageCommunity Development Using Historic and Cultural Heritage
The lab studies the preservation and use of buildings designated as cultural properties and of historic remains, and works on historic community development in partnership with local residents.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorEiko Minoura
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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: “Lublin Old Town Skyline” Max Dziekański / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Comparative Urban History of East Asia: “Toledo - 02” Carlos Delgado / CC BY-SA 3.0 es (cropped)
- National Transformation in the Modern Era and Urban Reorganization: “Otaru City in Hokkaido 1909 Meiji 42” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Community Development Using Historic and Cultural Heritage: “Arimatsu Historic Townscape, Midori Ward Nagoya 2012” Tomio344456 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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