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Urban Informatics Lab
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A lab that studies space through architectural informatics and urban informatics.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading architecture and cities through information
The Urban Informatics Lab specializes in architectural informatics, urban informatics, and design science, and studies architectural and urban space.
Graduate students generally belong to the Degree Program in Policy and Planning Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology.
Professor Shun Watanabe, who leads the lab, teaches courses such as Spatial Design Theory and Urban Planning Information Exercises in the College of Policy and Planning Sciences.
The titles of graduation theses, graduation design projects, and master's theses are listed by year on the research supervision page.
Key terms
- Street network
- The way roads connect to one another, viewed as a network
- Castle town
- A town developed around a castle. Its history remains in its road layout and urban structure
- 3D city model
- City data that represents buildings, roads, and other features in three dimensions. PLATEAU is one example
ResearchResearch themes
Specializing in architectural informatics, urban informatics, and design science, the lab studies architectural and urban space. Recent papers cover navigation methods that support pedestrians' spatial learning, changes in the street networks of castle towns, impressions of streetscapes using the 3D city model PLATEAU and VR, and design support tools for apartment buildings.
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The members of the Urban Informatics Lab are faculty and students in the doctoral and master's programs.
- ProfessorShun Watanabe
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