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Landscape & Environmental Design Lab
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The lab designs the relationship between greenery and cities to help them adapt to climate change.
AboutAbout the lab
Building climate-resilient cities from green space
The lab studies spatial planning and management centered on urban green space.
The lab develops green infrastructure plans as adaptation measures to sea level rise, extreme weather, and natural disasters caused by climate change.
As the population declines, the lab also examines how to sustain green space from the perspectives of institutions and costs.
The lab also works on public space management so that older adults, children, and people with disabilities can use green space equitably.
Key terms
- Green infrastructure
- An approach that uses the functions of nature as mechanisms for disaster prevention and environmental improvement in cities, as well as the green spaces themselves
- Nature-based Solutions
- Efforts to solve societal challenges such as climate change and disasters by using the power of nature
- Ecosystem services
- The benefits that nature, such as forests, rivers, and green spaces, provides to people, including water, food, cooling, and a sense of calm
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Sakamoto's paper published in npj Urban Sustainability
Paper published in the international journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports
Contribution published in the Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan
Undergraduate student wins top prize at the student design competition "Keikan Kaika."
Paper published in Anthropocene Coasts
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops spatial planning centered on urban green space that treats scales continuously, from the city block to the global environment. It addresses issues concerning the relationship between cities and nature, including adaptation to climate change, sustaining green space in an era of population decline, and social equity.
*Illustrative imageGreen Infrastructure for Climate Change Adaptation
As adaptation measures to sea level rise, extreme weather, and natural disasters, the lab proposes urban environmental planning centered on urban green space planning as Nature-based Solutions. Targeting the Tokyo metropolitan area and the Fukuoka and Nagoya metropolitan areas, it works on restoring the water cycle and biodiversity at the watershed scale.
*Illustrative imageGreen Space Management in an Era of Population Decline
Because of municipal fiscal constraints and a shrinking pool of people to manage them, satochi-satoyama (traditional village-and-woodland landscapes) and urban green spaces are being lost, raising concerns about declining ecosystem services. Using the amount of management work needed for green spaces to perform their intended functions as an indicator, the lab examines cost-benefit analysis and the feasibility of introducing a natural capital credit system.
*Illustrative imageThe Role of Agriculture in Cities
From the perspective of landscape ecology, the lab studies planning frameworks and systems that create new relationships between cities and the countryside. It works on mechanisms for managing and using privately owned farmland and satoyama remaining in cities as interim green space, adapted to the characteristics of each site.
*Illustrative imageSocial Inclusion and Public Space Management
As heat and flooding become more severe, the lives of low-income people, older adults, children, and people with disabilities tend to become more vulnerable. In collaboration with researchers in South America, Northern Europe, and Asia, the lab conducts comparative research on urban spaces that allow equitable access to green space.
MembersFaculty
The Landscape & Environmental Design Lab consists of faculty members, doctoral and master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorChika TakatoriPublications ↗
- Project LecturerYamazaki TakahiroPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorKeisuke SakamotoPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Aerial view of Lower Manhattan and Battery Park at dusk” SebastianBlumeArt / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Green Infrastructure for Climate Change Adaptation: “IS 250 Playground td ( - Rain Garden” Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Green Space Management in an Era of Population Decline: “Church Square Park Hoboken November 2021 001” King of Hearts / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The Role of Agriculture in Cities: “City gardening community garden plots Langenæs park Aarhus Denmark 01” Ciara Ní Riain / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Social Inclusion and Public Space Management: “John Dillon Park 04” Dclemens1971 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Water Systems Lab): “Irrigation and Water (20150827-NRCS-LSC-0091)” USDAgov / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Planning Lab): “JP-Tokyo-Area-Taken-From-Airplane” Kanchi1979 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (International Urban and Regional Planning Lab): “Shanghai Urban Planning Museum city model 4” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Sustainability Lab (Fukushi Lab)): “Chicago-City-Hall-Green-Roof 01” Conservation Design Forum / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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