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Housing and Urban Analysis Lab
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The lab uses data to explain phenomena in housing and cities and to make policy recommendations.
AboutAbout the lab
Urban analytics, and housing and residential environments
The Housing and Urban Analysis Lab studies matters related to housing and living, and phenomena that occur in cities.
Focusing on the housing market, residents' attitudes, and the spatial characteristics of cities and how they change over time, the lab reveals new causal relationships and predicts urban change.
Based on these results, the lab evaluates urban and housing policy and makes policy recommendations.
The lab is made up of faculty members from the Graduate School of Engineering, the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, and the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, and undergraduate thesis students from the Department of Urban Engineering are supervised by all of the faculty members.
Key terms
- Spatial information science
- The discipline of creating, managing, visualizing, and analyzing data that includes location information using computers
- Well-being
- A good state in which a person is healthy in body and mind and also socially fulfilled
- Wearable devices
- Electronic devices that are worn on the body, such as watch-type activity trackers
NewsLab news
Lab information session for fourth-year undergraduates held in April
A paper by Project Lecturer Daisuke Hasegawa and colleagues wins the Annual Outstanding Paper Award of the City Planning Institute of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's research targets matters related to housing and living, as well as the spatial characteristics and temporal changes of urban phenomena. Research proceeds in three areas: residential environment assessment and real estate analysis, urban analytics and spatial information science, and urban well-being.
*Illustrative imageResidential Environment Assessment and Real Estate Analysis
The lab analyzes the physical and social aspects of residential areas from multiple perspectives, developing methods to evaluate residential environments and analyzing the real estate market. In addition to experiments using wearable devices and analysis of the shapes of residential lots, the lab investigates the factors that determine land prices and rents in order to evaluate housing policy and make policy recommendations.
*Illustrative imageUrban Analytics and Spatial Information Science
This research covers urban analytics, which describes the structure of complex urban phenomena and identifies their causes, and spatial information science, which deals with digital data that includes location information. The lab analyzes topics such as store locations, shopping behavior, the placement of elementary and junior high schools, and the flow of people at train stations.
*Illustrative imageUrban Well-being
The lab analyzes the well-being of the diverse people who live in cities from perspectives such as health and safety. Combining quantitative analysis with interviews and surveys, it studies topics such as residential environments that encourage walking and community design that makes crime less likely.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Housing and Urban Analysis Lab consist of faculty, students in the doctoral, master's, Machizukuri (community planning) graduate, and undergraduate programs, and postdoctoral researchers.As of 2025
- ProfessorYukio SadahiroPublications ↗
- ProfessorIkuho YamadaPublications ↗
- ProfessorKimihiro HinoPublications ↗
- Project LecturerDaisuke HasegawaPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Tokyo Olympic bid city” Atr1992 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Residential Environment Assessment and Real Estate Analysis: “Tama New Town Nagamine district seen from a train window on the Keio Sagamihara Line (photographed on March 29, 2021)” いろは
団地 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Urban Analytics and Spatial Information Science: “ISS-62 Tokyo, Japan at night” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Urban Well-being: “Sakura in Koganei Park” Douglas Paul Perkins / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市情報・安全システム研究室): “Fire of Great Hanshin earthquake Seen from Portisland” 神戸市 / CC BY 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Related lab (加藤孝明研究室): “Looking roughly east from Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Building South Tower )” Joe Mabel on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US This photo was taken with Nikon D5000 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (まちづくり研究室(小泉秀樹研究室／Collaborative Community Design Lab)): “Narai-juku-facing-north-east-2019-Luka-Peternel” Luka Peternel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (国際都市計画・地域計画研究室): “Shanghai Urban Planning Museum city model 4” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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