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Landscape Design Lab
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A landscape design lab that studies stormwater management and green infrastructure.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about the urban environment through stormwater and green systems.
The lab of Associate Professor Kenjiro Kito specializes in landscape design and studies stormwater management and blue-green infrastructure.
Focusing on Norway, the lab is comparing district-scale practices with related legal reforms.
In classes, students do design exercises based on redevelopment areas in Arita Town and Tenjin, hearing about current conditions and issues from local government officials and community development groups.
Lab seminars cover themes such as flood control, groundwater conservation, and land management of farmland and woodland.
Key terms
- Blue-green infrastructure
- An approach to shaping the urban environment by combining the management of water, such as stormwater, with networks of greenery
- Nature-based solutions
- An approach that makes use of the functions of nature to address social and environmental challenges
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From the standpoint of landscape design, this lab studies stormwater management and the role of greenery. Using Norwegian practices and legal reforms as clues, it examines initiatives at the district scale.
*Illustrative imageDistrict-scale stormwater management and green infrastructure
In Norway, the lab compares practices that introduce blue-green infrastructure at the district scale with legal reforms, and examines them. Stormwater management and nature-based solutions are key clues.
*Illustrative imageFlood control and land management
Lab seminars cover themes such as flood control, groundwater conservation, and land management of farmland and woodland. The lab seeks measures that help improve current conditions and outcomes that lead to decision-making.
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- Associate ProfessorKenjiro Kito
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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: “Streetside swale Seattle” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Public domain (cropped)
- District-scale stormwater management and green infrastructure: “Meridian Hill Bioswale” Erica Fischer / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Flood control and land management: “Tambul River Flood Retention Pond” Wiki Farazi / CC0 (cropped)
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