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Social Systems Planning Lab
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A lab that uses economics to analyze how cities and regions work and to design better institutions.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing the social systems that support prosperous cities.
The Social Systems Planning Lab studies the planning and evaluation of social infrastructure that underpins transportation, communications, daily life, and disaster prevention.
The lab also studies the processes through which national and regional policies are decided.
It seeks to clarify, through both theory and empirical analysis, how urban activities and social infrastructure influence each other across space.
Using methods such as urban and regional economics, econometrics, and game theory, the lab places emphasis on applying its findings to actual policy.
Key terms
- Social infrastructure
- Foundations built for use by society as a whole, such as roads, railways, and water supply and sewage systems
- Cost-benefit analysis
- A method of measuring the value of a project by comparing the costs it requires with the benefits it generates
- Floor area ratio regulation
- A rule that sets an upper limit on the total floor area that can be built relative to the area of the site
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates how urban activities and social infrastructure influence each other across space, pursuing both the theoretical characterization of this relationship and its empirical measurement. Using methods from urban and regional economics, econometrics, game theory, operations research, and civil infrastructure planning, it places emphasis on applying its findings to actual policy.
*Illustrative imageLand use regulation and social welfare
The lab theoretically clarifies how land use regulations such as floor area ratio regulation and zoning affect social welfare through changes in land rent and population distribution, and devises ways to make land use optimal.
*Illustrative imageHow land taxation changes cities
The lab conducts empirical research on how land taxation and land use regulations affect the way land is used within cities.
*Illustrative imageCost-benefit analysis, extended
The lab improves and extends the methodology of cost-benefit analysis, which quantitatively evaluates policies from observable variables, so that it can handle the spatial and temporal aspects that traditional economics has largely ignored.
*Illustrative imageHow governments raise revenue
The lab analyzes, through both theory and empirical work, how governments can efficiently raise revenue through means such as taxes and fees.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTatsuhito Kono
- Associate ProfessorJunya Fukumoto
- LecturerMariko Nakagawa
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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: “Philadelphia skyline-daytime” Jeffrey M. Vinocur / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Land use regulation and social welfare: “Singapore skyline day” Ibrahim Hunaish from Malé, Maldives / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- How land taxation changes cities: “Urban fringe "agriculture" - geograph.org.uk - 26447” Richard Webb / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Cost-benefit analysis, extended: “Railway Viaduct - geograph.org.uk - 2790905” David Dixon / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- How governments raise revenue: “Aerial view of Autobahnkreuz Köln-Nord” El Grafo / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市マネジメント学分野): “Sendai city - Hirose river 2005” Kinori / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (福祉建築学分野): “Classroom” strngwrldfrwl from Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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空間 デザイン戦略): “Architecture Site Masterplan Miniature Scale Model” iKix 3D Prints / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (
空 間計画科学): “Aerial view of suburban housing in Blacklick, Ohio, October 2024” Pi. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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