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Omori Lab
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The lab studies urban planning by unraveling the history of cities, facing the present, and thinking about the future.
AboutAbout the lab
Facing cities, facing people.
The Omori Lab is an urban planning lab that unravels the history of cities, faces the present, and thinks about the future.
The lab sees a city as something elusive that keeps changing as its residents are replaced over time.
To face a city is to face its people, including the predecessors who once built the town and the children who will live in the city in the future.
Centered on urban planning, the lab conducts surveys, research, and activities with cities, people, and the global environment as its broad scope.
Key terms
- Urban planning
- A system for deciding, with foresight, how land in a city is used and how roads, parks, and other facilities are laid out
- Community development
- Efforts in which residents and government work together to improve a town's spaces and the lives of its people
- Public transportation
- Transportation systems, such as railways and buses, that are shared by many people
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Fumihiko Omori received the Young Researcher Excellent Lecture Award at the Civil Engineering History Research Conference
A lab information session was held after the graduate school entrance exam briefing
A master's student received the university's Student Leadership Award
A master's student received the Young Researcher Excellent Presentation Award at the Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting
The lab received the Encouragement Award from the Urban Infrastructure Technology Promotion Conference
ResearchResearch themes
The lab takes part in research and community development activities in multiple fields in Japan and abroad. By thinking about and putting into practice the real forms of urban space, organizations, and people, it aims to establish an approach to community development that goes beyond theory.
*Illustrative imagePort Towns and Waterfronts
Ports are valuable waterfronts for cities, but because they operate on transport and logistics logic that differs from urban planning, they are often legally and spatially cut off from the city. The lab investigates the role of urban waterfronts from multiple angles, focusing on port towns in Japan and abroad.
*Illustrative imageTransportation and Community Development
Large cities cannot function without large-scale, high-frequency public transportation. As people's ways of working become less uniform, the lab conducts surveys and research, mainly on suburban areas, to consider future transportation and community development from a long-term perspective.
*Illustrative imageTama River Project
This project uses the Tama River riverbank in Futako-Tamagawa, Setagaya Ward, as its field, and serves as an experimental site for urban waterfronts built together with local residents and people who love the Tama River. It connects thinking about river ecosystems with caring for the global environment and the future.
*Illustrative imageSmall Factories and Community Development in Ota Ward
This project considers future community development by drawing on the characteristics of Ota Ward in Tokyo, where many small neighborhood factories are scattered. The lab takes part in a project led by Yokohama National University and Tokyo Metropolitan University.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Omori Lab are faculty and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorFumihiko OmoriPublications ↗
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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: “Airborne imagery Mt. Fuji and Tokyo ( )” Kentaro Iemoto / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Port Towns and Waterfronts: “Busy Boats in Portsmouth Harbour - geograph.org.uk - 6249704” Rib / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Transportation and Community Development: “Aerial photograph of Clapham Junction railway station” Mertbiol / CC0 (cropped)
- Tama River Project: “1st Keihin road ( )” Yamaguchi Yoshiaki from Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Small Factories and Community Development in Ota Ward: “Nishiwaki, Hyogo Roof of saw type Sawtooth roofs in Nishiwaki DSCF2124” 松岡明芳 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (真野研究室): “Residential by Zenpukuji River in Horinouchi, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, 2024 May” Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (土肥研究室): “Urban green space - geograph.org.uk - 8264747” Graham Hogg / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (斎尾研究室): “Oshu City Maesawa Elementary School Building 202508b” とらもん192 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (大佛研究室): “Alphabet City aerial view” Felton Davis / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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