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Sanada Lab
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A lab that explores the future of rural and urban areas through history and landscape.
AboutAbout the lab
Considering the future of communities through how landscapes came to be.
Sanada Lab investigates how urban and rural landscapes have come about and considers how communities should be in the future.
The lab traces mainly prewar urban planning and green space planning through history, looking for clues to review today's society objectively.
It views rural landscapes as the sum of culture, livelihoods, and sustainable use of the environment, and studies how to build good relationships between agriculture and consumers.
The lab also works on the present-day value of dry stone masonry, which supports terraced rice paddies and terraced fields, and on ways to pass the technique on.
Key terms
- Green space planning
- Planning that considers how to place and use parks and green spaces within a city
- Dry stone masonry
- A traditional construction method that supports a slope by stacking only local stones, without mortar or similar binding material
- Hilly and mountainous areas
- Areas with little flat land, where fields and settlements spread among the mountains
ResearchResearch themes
When trying to solve various social problems, taking a broader view by looking abroad or to the past can sometimes reveal clues. The lab aims to create the society of the future by reexamining urban and rural landscapes through a historical approach.
*Illustrative imageHistory of Urban and Green Space Planning
The lab's research focuses mainly on prewar urban planning and green space planning. By tracing history, it steps slightly outside the values of today's society and looks at the present objectively.
*Illustrative imageAgricultural Landscapes and Rural Revitalization
A rural landscape reflects the culture and livelihoods of its place. Rather than treating landscape as a superficial form, the lab treats it as the sum of culture, livelihoods, energy balance, and sustainable use of the environment, and studies the values and systems needed to build good relationships between agriculture and consumers.
*Illustrative imageStone Masonry
In hilly and mountainous areas, terraced rice paddies and terraced fields are supported by dry stone masonry, a technique that uses no mortar. It had nearly died out with the spread of concrete, but it is attracting renewed attention as a sustainable construction method. The lab studies its value today and ways to pass the technique on.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorJunko SanadaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorTakaaki NakagawaPublications ↗
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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: “Terraced rice fields at Takenoshita 20220528-IMG 2609” くろふね / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- History of Urban and Green Space Planning: “Autumn in the Hibiya Park ( )” Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Agricultural Landscapes and Rural Revitalization: “Rice terraces in Hatenashi village A” さか
おり / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Stone Masonry: “DryStoneWallSwiss” Audrius Meskauskas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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