Laboratory for Urban and Regional Sustainability

For building sustainable cities and regions

It is necessary to conduct investigations and research that transcend the academic boundaries to solve many problems faced by cities and regions so that they will be made sustainable. Our laboratory is conducting research from the standpoints fusing social sciences, regional sciences, humanities, engineering and architecture. Our research topics include the identification of factors necessary for realizing sustainable cities and local regions, the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of these factors, the analysis of relationships between the factors and the examination of relationships between urban spaces, humans and society.

School of Architecture Department of Architecture / Graduate School of Engineering and Science（Master's Program） Architecture and Architectural Engineering Course / Graduate School of Engineering and Science（Doctor's Program） Regional Environment Systems Course

Faculty Name

KURISHIMA, Hideaki

Keyword

Sustainable,Urban planning,Regional communities,Recycling-based society,Environmental burdens

Laboratory location

Centennial Main Building TOYOSU Campus 8F 08D12

This lab is for this SDG activity:

STUDY FIELDS

Science on sustainability (New)
Environmental studies (New)
Urban planning (New)
Human geography (New)
Environmental engineering

FOR SOCIETY

We have developed performance indexes and methods to be used for evaluating regions for sustainability as well as technologies and system evaluations that help attain sustainability. They are being incorporated in the policies of the central and local governments.

RESEARCH THEMES

Evaluation of distributed renewable energy systems, which factor in the limitations of resources and lifestyles of people
Examination of social systems that are resilient to disasters and with the existence of flexible communities
Research on methods to create lifestyles that harmonize people with the environment