LAB LOGA page on LabLog, a review site (not the lab's official page)
Green Space Environment Lab
Machine-translated · View original
A lab that considers the future of cities and rural areas through greenery and regional landscapes.
AboutAbout the lab
Viewing regions through landscape to think about cities and rural areas
The Green Space Environment Lab studies how urban and rural spaces should be developed in an era of population decline.
The lab approaches regions from the perspective of landscape, a comprehensive expression of the relationship between people and nature.
Amid the urban shrinkage that accompanies population decline, the lab considers what comfortable urban and rural spaces with a low environmental load should look like.
Its work centers on field surveys, combined with remote sensing analysis, simulation, environmental measurement, questionnaire surveys, and literature review.
Key terms
- Landscape
- A comprehensive expression of the relationship between people and nature in a region, including their interactions and visual manifestations
- Urban shrinkage
- The trend of cities contracting as the population declines
- Peri-urban area
- An area where urban and rural spaces are intermixed
NewsLab news
View More ↗ResearchResearch themes
With the arrival of an era of population decline, the direction of urban and rural space development is changing significantly. From the perspective of landscape, the lab studies what comfortable urban and rural spaces with a low environmental load should look like.
*Illustrative imageUrban Green Space and History
Today's urban green spaces have taken their present form through various histories. The lab explores how green space should be developed in the future through historical research on urban green space planning, analysis of the environmental conservation functions of greenery, and analysis of green-related systems.
*Illustrative imageMitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect with Greenery
The lab focuses on the heat island mitigation function among the environmental conservation functions of urban greenery. It explores how greenery can be used to create comfortable urban spaces with a low environmental load.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping Areas Where City and Countryside Mix
Peri-urban areas, where urban and rural spaces are intermixed, are said to differ greatly in spatial form between Europe/North America and Asia. Focusing on Japan as well as Manila and Jakarta, the lab studies how development suited to Asia should be approached.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Green Space Environment Lab are faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkinobu Murakami
VoicesStudent voices
Ratings and reviews reflect the experiences of individual current or former students, not the lab's official views. Whether a lab has reviews, or how many, says nothing about the lab itself.
Students who take part in an interview may receive a thank-you gift worth ¥1,000, regardless of what they say.
Student ratings (0 students)
--
--
--
--
--
--
Student voices answer questions like these
- What's great about this lab?
- What did you learn after joining?
- What's the vibe, and what is the professor like?
- Who is this lab for?
- Where do graduates go?
Your experience can help younger students choose their lab. Your name won't be shown.
Write a lab reviewAnonymous · Your draft is saved if you stopRelatedLabs similar to Green Space Environment Lab
Social and Cognitive Psychology LabSchool of Science and Engineering, College of Policy and Planning SciencesDecision theory, cognitive psychology, social psychology; in…
Urban Culture Coexistence Planning LabSchool of Science and Engineering, College of Policy and Planning SciencesUrban conservation planning, history of urban planning, Medi…
Shigeno LabSchool of Science and Engineering, College of Policy and Planning SciencesMathematical programming, combinatorial optimization (lab we…
Urban and Transportation Science LabSchool of Science and Engineering, College of Policy and Planning SciencesTransportation engineering, civil engineering planning, and …The information on this page is compiled by the LabLog team from the lab's public information and interviews. For corrections or removal requests, please contact LabLog, not the lab.
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: “Park Środula, Sosnowiec, Jesień 2021” Krzysztof Popławski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban Green Space and History: “Castle Green, Hereford - geograph.org.uk - 8058995” Neil Owen / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect with Greenery: “20080708 Chicago City Hall Green Roof” TonyTheTiger / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Developing Areas Where City and Countryside Mix: “Urban fringe "agriculture" - geograph.org.uk - 26447” Richard Webb / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (社会・認知心理学研究室): “Decision making in a social context” Glascher Lab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市文化共生計画研究室): “Old Corfu town aerial 02” This photo was taken by Anton Zelenov. Please credit this with : Photo : Anton Zelenov in the immediate vicinity of the image. If you use one of my photos, please me (account needed) or leave me a short message on my discussion page. It would be greatly appreciated. Do not copy this image illegally by ignoring the terms of the license below, as it is not in the public domain. If you would like special permission to use, license, or purchase the image please contact me to negotiate terms. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (繁野研究室): “Flight departure board at Canberra Airport, November 2022” Kgbo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市・交通科学研究室): “Street intersection, traffic lights in Batman” Zalasem1 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
About LabLog
LabLog is a lab review app for students only. Student members at each university interview students in labs and publish what they say. Student voices can only be read by students who sign up with a university email address. Operated by bestiee Inc.
Learn more about LabLog ↗Search engines and AI may reference the basic lab info and rating summaries on this page and the description of LabLog. Student voices are for student members only. Automated collection by programs (scraping, or input to or training of AI) is prohibited under Article 8 of the Terms of Service. If you need data for research or analysis, please contact us.