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Urban Sustainability Lab (Fukushi Lab)
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The lab builds on environmental engineering to study sustainable cities from the perspective of people's everyday lives.
AboutAbout the lab
From people's daily lives to a sustainable society.
The Urban Sustainability Lab studies the sustainability of cities, building on environmental engineering.
Its research targets range from global problems to individual decision-making, and it always keeps people's daily lives in mind.
Each student chooses one topic through discussion with the faculty, on subjects such as energy, food, infectious disease risk, and climate change adaptation.
Key terms
- Risk Communication
- Efforts in which experts and citizens exchange information about various hazards (risks) in order to deepen mutual understanding
- Energy Mix
- The composition of power generation methods, such as solar, wind, and thermal, and how much of each is combined to meet electricity demand
- CFD
- A method that uses computers to calculate and reproduce the flow of air or water. Short for computational fluid dynamics
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Kurisu received the Academic Award from the Society for Environmental Science
A researcher received the Best Presentation Award (Doctoral/Postdoc category) at the Society for Environmental Science 2026 Annual Meeting
An undergraduate student received the Department of Urban Engineering Graduation Research Excellence Award and Excellent Academic Achievement Award
A researcher and a master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the Society for Environmental Science 2025 Annual Meeting
A student who completed the doctoral program received the Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering Award
ResearchResearch themes
Grounded in environmental engineering, the lab conducts research from the perspective of the people who live in local communities. Its topics are wide-ranging, including energy self-sufficiency on islands, infectious disease risk, urban farms, sustainable food, and climate change adaptation.
*Illustrative imageEnergy Self-Sufficiency and Decarbonization on Islands
Focusing on islands such as Sado Island, the lab evaluates the effects of introducing renewable energy, together with human resource development and food production, as a model for sustainable regions. It also examines the optimal energy mix for decarbonization.
*Illustrative imageHealth Risks in Asian Cities
The lab builds infectious disease risk models based on people's behavior, such as their actions during floods and handwashing, and evaluates measures to reduce risk. It also studies risk communication to help people understand risks.
*Illustrative imageInfection Risk in Various Spaces
Using CFD, the lab builds models of infection within spaces that include human behavior, and evaluates how effective interventions are for the behaviors that most strongly affect the spread of infection.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the Effects of Urban Farms
In Indonesia and the Philippines, the lab evaluates the effects of urban farms, such as food supply and ecosystem maintenance. In Japan, it also investigates the potential for collaboration between community gardens and food banks or children's community meal programs (kodomo shokudo).
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban Sustainability Lab are faculty, researchers, visiting professors, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and students from the Graduate Program in Community Development.As of 2026
- ProfessorKensuke FukushiPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorKurisu KiyoPublications ↗
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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: “Chicago-City-Hall-Green-Roof 01” Conservation Design Forum / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Energy Self-Sufficiency and Decarbonization on Islands: “Miyako nishihenna turbines” Paipateroma / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Health Risks in Asian Cities: “Quiapo, Manila Floods Habagat-Carina 2024-2” Michael Peronce / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Infection Risk in Various Spaces: “PictureOfVortexTakenViaLaserSheet” Pswissler / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the Effects of Urban Farms: “New crops-Chicago urban farm” Linda from Chicago, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Socio-Ecological Systems Lab): “Aeration tank activated sludge process STP Bengaluru India” Vraj Acharya, WELL Labs / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Regional Circular and Symbiotic Systems Lab): “Mt karousan 2016” Townphoto / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Water Environment Control Lab): “Lake Kasumigaura from Kasumigaura City 04” Σ64 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Planning Lab): “JP-Tokyo-Area-Taken-From-Airplane” Kanchi1979 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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