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Urban and Environmental
Laboratory of Planning for Urban and Regional Resilience
Hitoshi Nakamura
Professor, Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems
College of Systems Engineering and Science
Architecture and Civil Engineering in Master's Program
Regional Environment Systems in Doctoral Program
Location: Omiya Campus
http://www.planktonik.com/nakamurajin/english/
 
Laboratory Overview
Building a Safe, Resilient, Diverse, and Vibrant City
A lot of communities and cities in Japan and across the Globe are exposed to the risk of disasters, like flood, quake, fire and tsunami. The Laboratory of Planning for Urban and Regional Resilience was started in April 2012, in pursuit of more livable and sustainable way of urban planning and design. Research projects in the laboratory focus on multidisciplinary studies across architectural, environmental, social and urban-engineering fields with an emphasis on how to build a safe, resilient, diverse, and vibrant city - rather than disaster-protected but unlivable area.
Laboratory Character The laboratory re-evaluates the seismic resilience of densely built-up areas to define new measures for mitigating earthquake disaster damages, which will also lead to the revitalization of community welfare and economy.
Research Outputs You can review research papers in the website below.
https://shibaura.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/hitoshi-nakamura
Laboratory Research Field
Urban and Regional Planning Community Design Disaster Risk Reduction Climate Change Adaptation  
         
Recent Research Topics
Land use planning and environmental design for adapting to the global climate change Spatial Planning for flood risk reduction Re-evaluations of the seismic resilience of densely built-up areas Development of image training programs for post-disaster urban reconstruction Study on community design and social systems for adapting to super-aged society
Inductive development of new planning theory for urban and regional diversity and resilience Supporting project to help the community-based long-term recovery process from the 3.11 earthquake disasters: Nakoso region in Iwaki City Supporting project to help image training programs for post-disaster urban reconstruction: Saitama City and other municipalities in Saitama Prefecture Supporting project to help the community-based environmental improvement activities in the densely built-up areas : Hikifune district in Tokyo Supporting project to help the community-based collaborative welfare activities in the suburban areas : Haraichi district in Ageo City
Affiliated Conferences
City Planning Institute of Japan Architectural Institute of Japan Japan Society of Civil Engineers Institute of Social Safety Science Association of Urban Housing Sciences
         
For Social Contributions to the World Sustainability The students in the laboratory are conducting actual supporting projects to contribute to the community-based collaborative activities in relation to urban and regional resilience.
Related Industries
Urban and regional planning Community design      
         
Applicable Industrial Fields
Disaster risk reduction Climate change adaptation      
         
Instruments and Devices in this Laboratory
         
         
Research Seeds
Spatial planning for disaster risk reduction Spatial planning for climate change adaptation