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Urban Disaster Management Planning Lab
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The lab studies how to prepare for catastrophic disasters and how to rebuild communities afterward.
AboutAbout the lab
Cities and architecture that live with disasters
The Urban Disaster Management Planning Lab studies how to rebuild communities after disasters and how to prepare for them.
Japan is expected to be hit in the near future by disasters larger than the Great East Japan Earthquake, such as a massive Nankai Trough earthquake or an earthquake directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area.
The lab considers how to overcome catastrophic disasters not only from a technological perspective but also from historical and cultural ones.
It explores urban disaster management planning that is highly safe while remaining in harmony with the environment, landscape, history, and culture.
Key terms
- Pre-disaster recovery planning
- Thinking about and preparing for how to rebuild a community after a disaster before the disaster occurs
- Local disaster management plan
- A plan drawn up by a local government that sets out, for each area, preparations for disasters and the response during disasters
ResearchResearch themes
In Japan, which is frequently struck by disasters, the lab studies how cities and architecture can live with disasters, from historical and cultural perspectives as well as technological ones.
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MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty members, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorNorio Maki
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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: “Wakinohama house c211” 神戸市 / CC BY 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Disaster management planning and pre-disaster recovery planning for catastrophic disasters: “CFAS Participates in Sasebo City Disaster Drill (8626211)” U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Chase Stephens / Public domain (cropped)
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