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Urban Planning Lab
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A lab that takes urban planning as its core and engages in both the practice of and research on community development (machizukuri).
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about the future of cities on the ground.
The Urban Planning Lab centers on urban planning and explores creative and sustainable ways for cities to develop.
Urban planning is a field closely tied to people's lives, daily living, and society. It considers how to realize a prosperous future using space, technology, and systems.
Research is basically carried out individually, but students can also join "projects" on actual community development, urban planning proposals, and regional practice, depending on their wishes.
The lab belongs to the Department of Architecture and Urban Culture in the Graduate School of Urban Innovation for graduate students, and to the Department of Architecture in the College of Urban Sciences for undergraduates.
Key terms
- Urban planning
- A field that considers how to realize a prosperous future by using space, technology, and systems, in connection with people's lives and activities
- Machizukuri ordinance
- An ordinance that serves as the framework for local actors to manage their own area
- Idle real estate
- Real estate, such as buildings, that is left unused
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The Urban Planning Lab centers on urban planning, which is closely connected to people's lives and society, and explores concrete ways to realize a prosperous future. Its scope is broad, and it also works on projects such as actual community development, urban planning proposals, regional practice, and field-based research.
*Illustrative imageCreating a Manufacturing Town (Ota Ward)
In Ota Ward, one of Tokyo's leading manufacturing towns, the lab aims to build a creative town where technology, creativity, and daily life come together. Working with local organizations, including taking part in events that open small local factories to the public, it works to solve regional issues and put proposals into practice.
*Illustrative imageCommunity Development Using Townscape
The lab studies the design and management of urban space, and community development that makes use of local resources, history, and townscape. It also engages in practical project activities as well as surveys and analysis.
*Illustrative imageRestructuring Urban Form in a Shrinking Society
The lab studies planning theory for restructuring urban structure in a shrinking society, and the shape of urban planning systems. Its scope also includes area management by local actors and the community development ordinances (machizukuri ordinances) that provide its framework.
*Illustrative imageLand Use and Co-creation in Depopulating Cities
The lab studies urban policy and land use planning in depopulating cities in Japan and abroad. It also covers the management of reusing idle real estate and co-creative community development in which multiple stakeholders collaborate.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban Planning Lab consist of faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.
- ProfessorTaku Nohara
- Associate ProfessorJangshik Yoon
- Associate ProfessorKennichi Yabuki
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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: “View over People's Park from the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center” Daniel Case / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Creating a Manufacturing Town (Ota Ward): “Machine Shop Men GPN” NASA Headquarters - GReatest Images of NASA (NASA-HQ-GRIN) / Public domain (cropped)
- Community Development Using Townscape: “Cape Town dawn cityscape with Table Mountain” Daniel Case / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Restructuring Urban Form in a Shrinking Society: “Żywiec - urban structure” Mtsz.bnd / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Land Use and Co-creation in Depopulating Cities: “Vacant land, Bishopsworth - geograph.org.uk - 3750393” Derek Harper / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Planning Lab): “New housing estate - geograph.org.uk - 8095099” Kevin Waterhouse / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural History and Architectural Art Lab): “Old Bridge and town hall in Heidelberg” PpP-v-v-i / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Large Space Structures Lab): “Tensile Membrane Structures” Ajmalbabums / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Design (AD) Lab): “Urban design of Qom metropolis in 2007 Photo By Mostafa Meraji 09” Mostafameraji / CC0 (cropped)
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