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Urban and Landscape Planning Lab
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The lab studies how to plan and design cities and regions in harmony with nature.
AboutAbout the lab
Planning cities and regions from a landscape perspective
The Urban and Landscape Planning Lab studies methods for evaluating, planning, and designing cities and regions from a landscape perspective.
A landscape perspective views cities and regions as expressions of the relationships among climate, topography, ecosystems, daily life, and culture.
Using green spaces, trees, and farmland as clues, the lab explores sustainable urban forms in which human activity and the natural environment are in harmony.
Students come from a wide range of fields, including civil engineering, architecture, ecology, and economics.
Key terms
- Landscape
- The appearance of land or a region, emerging from the overlap of climate, topography, ecosystems, and people's lives and culture
- Urban Forestry
- A planning approach that treats urban trees, such as street trees, park trees, and wooded areas, as a single forest and considers their management and creation as a whole
- Circular Town
- A model of small and medium-sized cities in which people, goods, and money circulate within the region and which are also connected to surrounding agriculture and forestry. A concept proposed by the lab
NewsLab news
Research by a doctoral student published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Research by a project researcher published in Sustainable Cities and Society
Research by a master's student published in Reports of the City Planning Institute of Japan
Research by a doctoral student published in Land
The "Circular Town Guidebook" was published through the social collaboration course with Takenaka Corporation
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies planning and design for creating cities and regions in which society, the economy, and the environment are in harmony, by making use of green spaces and the natural environment. Its main themes are urban green spaces, trees, and farmland, and the circulation of resources within a region.
*Illustrative imageLandscape Planning
The lab asks what functions and values green spaces have and how they should be treated in land-use planning and urban design, and considers what a city looks like in which society, the economy, and the environment are in harmony.
*Illustrative imageUrban Forestry
Treating urban trees, such as street trees, park trees, and wooded areas, as a single forest, the lab develops concepts for managing and creating them across the whole city. It also pays attention to the roles of gardens, house woodlots (yashikirin), and shrine forests (chinju no mori).
*Illustrative imageUrban Agriculture
Farmland remaining in cities serves various functions beyond producing food. To preserve "towns with agriculture," the lab builds up knowledge that can support conservation planning and community development.
*Illustrative imageCircular Town
The lab calls small and medium-sized cities in which people, goods, and money circulate within the region, and which are connected to agriculture and forestry outside the city through local production for local consumption, "Circular Towns," and works on both their concepts and their practice.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban and Landscape Planning Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorToru TeradaPublications ↗
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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: “Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden and NTT DoCoMo Yoyogi Building, Tokyo, Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Landscape Planning: “Kamo River in Kyoto” Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban Forestry: “Jozenji-dori Avenue 2005” Los688 / Public domain (cropped)
- Urban Agriculture: “ShinyokoCabbageField” M abe / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Circular Town: “Bamboo charcoal making” Taekotukide / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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