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Regional Environmental Planning Lab
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The lab designs outdoor urban environments by capturing urban wind and heat through computation and measurement.
AboutAbout the lab
Cities that stay safe to live in, even as the climate changes
The Regional Environmental Planning Lab studies the outdoor physical environment: air temperature, humidity, wind, and solar radiation.
Using numerical simulation such as CFD (computational fluid dynamics) together with environmental measurement techniques, the lab covers everything from understanding actual conditions to prediction, analysis, and evaluation.
The lab aims to create urban outdoor environments where people can live safely, comfortably, and healthily, even under future climates as climate change progresses.
The lab has long worked on heat countermeasures for cities, such as urban greening and control of solar reflection.
Key terms
- CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
- A method that uses computers to calculate the flow of air and water and to reproduce how wind and heat behave
- Thermal environment
- The surrounding environment, including air temperature, humidity, wind, and solar radiation, that determines whether people feel hot or cold
- Urban greening
- Adding trees and grassy areas to a city to ease heat through shade and evaporation
NewsLab news
A paper by Associate Professor Ishida and colleagues was published in Results in Engineering
A paper co-authored by Associate Professor Ishida and others received the JAR Best Paper Award 2025
Associate Professor Ishida received the "Best Paper Award 2025 Japan Architectural Review" (Architectural Institute of Japan)
A paper co-authored by a PhD student and Associate Professor Ishida received the IAQVEC2026 Best Paper Award
Associate Professor Ishida received the "Best Paper Award at IAQVEC 2026" (IAQVEC 2026 Organizing Commit…)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab predicts and evaluates how the construction of new buildings and urbanization affect wind flow, the thermal environment, and air pollution, and studies methods for creating good urban environments. Beyond heat countermeasures such as urban greening, control of solar reflection, and designing building shapes and layouts to bring in the cooling effect of sea breezes, the lab also works on predicting strong winds from large typhoons, controlling water flow during urban heavy rain and river flooding, and developing drone-based methods for designing thermal environments.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Regional Environmental Planning Lab consist of faculty, PhD, master's, and undergraduate students, and a professor emeritus.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYasuyuki Ishida
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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: “Jozenji-dori Avenue 2005” Los688 / Public domain (cropped)
- Countermeasures for Urban Wind, Heat, and Flood Damage: “A Johannesburg Summers Day” Ryanj93 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Infrastructure Materials Engineering Lab): “Concrete resistance test” Habib M’henni / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Spatial Planning Science Lab): “Aerial view of suburban housing in Blacklick, Ohio, October 2024” Pi. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mathematical Systems Design Lab): “Finite element mesh” Bruno Sudret / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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