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Urban Environment and Behavior Lab
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The lab considers cities through the relationship between human behavior and the environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding how people and environments relate, and applying it to community development.
The Urban Environment and Behavior Lab observes and analyzes human activities that take place in environments of various scales.
The lab's goal is to clarify how people's psychology and behavior relate to the environment, and to identify methods for creating and managing better environments.
The foundation discipline is urban planning, which also relates to geography, spatial information science, environmental psychology, and criminology.
Students in the lab are expected to acquire another area of expertise in addition to urban planning.
Key terms
- vacant land
- Land whose management has been abandoned. Left alone, it causes trouble for the surrounding area, but if it can be used as a resource, it can raise the value of the living environment
- environmental psychology
- An academic field that deals broadly with the relationship between people and the environment. It covers the perception, evaluation, and behavior related to urban space
- caring community
- A community in which local people support, without undue strain, the lives of those who need social support
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to uncover how people's psychology and behavior relate to the environment and to identify ways to create and manage better environments. Research is carried out with various methods, including questionnaire surveys, experiments and observation, statistical analysis, GIS-based behavior analysis, and literature reviews and interviews.
*Illustrative imageCrime Analysis and Crime-Preventive Community Development
Urban crime is said to be concentrated in time and space, so community development that intervenes in the characteristics of places can serve as a means of prevention. The lab studies crime occurrence patterns, their relationship with the environment, and effective methods of crime-preventive community development.
*Illustrative imageSustainable Living Using Vacant Land
In suburban residential areas, there is concern that a declining birthrate, an aging population, and population decrease will produce large amounts of vacant land. The lab explores a vision of a “low-density but sustainable” city by using vacant land as semi-public community space.
*Illustrative imageLives and Support of Socially Vulnerable People
The lab clarifies problems in the daily lives of people who need social support, such as older adults, children, people with disabilities, and foreign residents. It studies how to build caring communities that support them locally.
*Illustrative imageCreating and Using Geospatial Information
The lab examines how location-based big data can be used in community development, from the perspective of how people use geospatial information. It also studies the development of tools for turning information into data and how to apply them to solving social issues.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban Environment and Behavior Lab consist of faculty and lab affiliates, including working adults.
- Associate ProfessorMamoru Amemiya
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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: “Shanghai Urban Planning Museum city model 3” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Crime Analysis and Crime-Preventive Community Development: “Security camera, September 2018” Cody Logan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Sustainable Living Using Vacant Land: “Suburb 3” Almostway2004 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Lives and Support of Socially Vulnerable People: “Wheelchair Accessible Taxi in passenger loading zone with kerb ramp George St Brisbane P1020355” John Robert McPherson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Creating and Using Geospatial Information: “Mapathon Archives de Lyon” DMontagne en résidence / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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