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Urban Environmental Management and Planning Lab
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A lab working toward a safe urban environment with reduced disaster and environmental risks.
AboutAbout the lab
Aiming for a safe urban environment in harmony with the environment.
The Urban Environmental Management and Planning Lab conducts research toward realizing a safe urban environment in harmony with the environment, one that can reduce the risks of disasters and environmental problems.
It addresses problems such as global warming, the heat island effect, earthquakes, and wind and flood damage from both the disaster prevention and the environmental perspectives together.
The lab values learning from the field and applying its results back to the field, and it uses geographic information systems (GIS) in its research.
On the site, the lab is introduced as the "Yoshida-Inagaki-Taneichi Lab," and the Urban Disaster Prevention Planning Lab (Inagaki) of the Department of Risk Management and Environmental Sciences is also listed.
Key terms
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- A system that places information tied to location on a map and handles it by computer.
- Decarbonization
- Efforts to progressively reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
- Thermal fluid analysis (CFD)
- A method of investigating heat and airflow by computer calculation.
NewsLab news
An undergraduate student received the Best Graduation Thesis Award (Suienkai Award) of the Department of Architecture
An undergraduate student was selected for an Outstanding Research Report at the Architectural Institute of Japan Kanto Chapter Research Presentation Meeting
A master's student received the Young Researcher Outstanding Presentation Award at the Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting (Kyushu)
Assistant Professor Taneichi received an Encouragement Award from the Society of Human-Environment System
A master's student and Associate Professor Inagaki won second place in the Map Division at Map Gallery 2025
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to realize a sustainable urban environment that can reduce the risks of disasters and environmental problems. Its research themes fall broadly into three areas, urban disaster prevention, community development in harmony with the natural environment, and urban infrastructure planning, together with the design of the urban environment that links them, and it uses geographic information systems (GIS) in its research.
*Illustrative imageEnergy Saving and Decarbonization of Buildings and Districts
The lab studies energy saving and decarbonization of buildings and districts. It covers technologies, evaluation, and management methods for reducing energy loads, using energy efficiently, and using energy with low environmental impact.
*Illustrative imageUrban and Regional Disaster Prevention and Functional Continuity During Disasters
The lab studies disaster prevention for cities and regions. It considers how buildings and city blocks can keep functioning during disasters and how to create communities where people can live safely and with peace of mind, analyzing urban space with geographic information systems (GIS).
*Illustrative imageVentilation and Thermal Environment in Childcare Facilities
From the standpoint of building environmental engineering, the lab studies ventilation and thermal environments. Using on-site environmental measurements, measurements of human physiological quantities, and thermal fluid analysis (CFD), it investigates ventilation planning for childcare facilities in urban areas.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban Environmental Management and Planning Lab consist of faculty, professors emeriti, students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorSatoshi Yoshida
- Associate ProfessorKeiko Inagaki
- Assistant ProfessorShinya Taneichi
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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: “Lancaster New City Cavite Southern Barangay Navarro Flood Hazard map” Ervin Malicdem / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Energy Saving and Decarbonization of Buildings and Districts: “Thin film solar roof stacked triplex condo” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
- Urban and Regional Disaster Prevention and Functional Continuity During Disasters: “Nagoya City Minato Disaster Prevention Center-03” KAMUI / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ventilation and Thermal Environment in Childcare Facilities: “Buildings in Orekhovo-Zuevo. Ventilation on the roof of the building 02” Dmitry Makeev / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Building Environmental Engineering Lab): “Passive house in La Crosse” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Steel Structures Lab): “Steel braced frame added to an unreinforced masonry bearing-wall building as a seismic retrofit” Keithalanporter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Reinforced Concrete Structures Lab): “Fractured reinforced concrete column” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Planning Lab): “New housing estate - geograph.org.uk - 8095099” Kevin Waterhouse / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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