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Urban Planning Lab
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An urban planning lab that considers regional design and planning through landscape and tourism.
AboutAbout the lab
Considering regional sustainability through landscape and tourism.
The Urban Planning Lab (Yuka Himeno) specializes in urban planning and regional and rural planning, and studies sustainable regional design.
From the perspectives of landscape and tourism, the lab analyzes regional resources.
It investigates the use of public spaces, the conditions for making use of vacant lots and vacant houses, and the conditions for remote islands and small communities to continue to exist, and explores how to create plans suited to the characteristics of each region.
The lab also works with community organizations and municipalities on practical initiatives that put its research results to use.
Key terms
- Urban planning
- The work and academic field of planning in advance how a city's land and public spaces are used, in order to build the city.
- Regional resources
- Things unique to a region, such as its landscape and tourist attractions.
- Municipalities
- Cities, towns, and villages: the level of local government closest to residents.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab analyzes regional resources from the perspectives of landscape and tourism, and considers sustainable regional design. It aims to develop planning methods suited to regional characteristics.
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MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYuka Himeno
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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: “Fukuoka Shingu Ainoshima aerial shoot” ブルーノ・
プラス / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Regional design from the perspectives of landscape and tourism: “Ayrshire Townscape , Dunure harbour - geograph.org.uk - 8012872” Richard West / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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