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Urban Infrastructure Systems Engineering Lab
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The lab uses urban data to create sustainable, resilient cities and national land.
AboutAbout the lab
Co-creating sustainable and resilient cities and national land
The Urban Infrastructure Systems Engineering Lab studies how to build sustainable and resilient cities and national land.
It considers methods to strengthen cities, national land, and infrastructure as robust systems and to manage them efficiently.
Through empirical research using urban data and practice-based research carried out in the field, it builds planning theory, policy theory, and methodology.
It also puts effort into returning the results to society and using them to solve real problems.
Key terms
- Resilience
- The ability to limit damage and return to normal life after a disaster or major change
- Geospatial information
- Data collected and tied to locations, which can be overlaid on a map for analysis
- Historic environmental assets
- Buildings, landscapes, and environments that convey the history and culture of a town, such as Kyoto machiya townhouses and historic surroundings
NewsLab news
A commentary by the lab's Professor, "The New Role of Land Readjustment in the AI Era," was published in the bulletin of the association of land readjustment professionals
A student supervised by the lab's Professor received the 2026 Academic Award (Encouragement Award) from the Japan Society for Planning Administration
A master's student received the YUPN Best Paper Presentation Award at the international conference of the Asia Pacific Planning Societies
A student supervised by the lab's Professor received the 2026 Academic Award for Best Paper from the Japan Society for Regional Policy Studies
A student supervised by the lab's Professor received the Grand Prize at the Graduate School of Management SDGs Leadership Award
ResearchResearch themes
The lab considers how to strengthen cities, national land, and infrastructure as robust systems and manage them efficiently and effectively. It builds planning theory, policy theory, and methodology through both empirical research using urban data and practice-based research carried out in the field.
*Illustrative imageUrban and national land planning and infrastructure development
Centered on three pillars—national and regional planning, urban planning and community development, and fair and sustainable transportation planning—the lab studies planning theory, policy theory, and infrastructure development theory.
*Illustrative imageUrban regeneration and conservation
The lab covers regional revitalization and the revitalization of central urban districts, urban redevelopment that renews aging infrastructure and buildings, and the conservation of historic environmental assets such as Kyoto machiya townhouses. It considers urban and social management suited to urban growth and change from the perspectives of policy, institutions, and practice.
*Illustrative imageUrban resilience
Raising the resilience of cities and national land requires not only infrastructure development but also efforts that include strengthening social ties and conserving the environment. The lab studies planning theory for building cities and national land that can respond to natural disasters and social change.
*Illustrative imageGeospatial information and digital urban infrastructure
The lab advances methods for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial information, and develops methodologies for next-generation urban development and infrastructure management. In recent years it has also focused on the use of generative AI and on the siting of the data centers that underpin it.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban Infrastructure Systems Engineering Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTetsuharu Oba
- Assistant ProfessorYutaro Kamada
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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: “The city lights of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (iss072e399613)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Urban and national land planning and infrastructure development: “Aerial photograph of Clapham Junction railway station” Mertbiol / CC0 (cropped)
- Urban regeneration and conservation: “Niso-Udatsu-no-Machinami ac (9)” Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban resilience: “White onion cross section” Amada44 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Geospatial information and digital urban infrastructure: “Wax foundation - Flickr - conall..” Conall from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市地域計画): “Tramway de Dijon DSC 0244” Pline / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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