Urban Planning Laboratory
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Junichiro ASANO
Kazuki KARASHIMA
Yichen LIU（E-mail：asano@ace.tut.ac.jp ）（E-mail：k-karashima@ace.tut.ac.jp ）（E-mail：liu@ace.tut.ac.jp ）http://urbandesign.web.fc2.com/MOTHER-hp/STU-hp/index.html
Land use planning, land use controls, urban design, history of modern urban planning,history of modern city making“Urban Planning Research Declaration: Our method shall be urban design, our mentality shall be thedoctrine of provincial cities, and our attitude shall be a complete appreciation of cities and architecture!”
This is a riﬀ on the famous city creation declaration of “Our method shall be readjustment, our mentality shallbe the doctrine of small cities, and our attitude shall be a complete appreciation of cities.” I include it here
because it perfectly describes my research style and goals.
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Study on land use planning and land use controls in Japan
Theme 1Entering an age of falling population and low economic growth, city
planning needs to consider not only these factors but also eﬀects
upon the Earthʼs environment. In particular, provincial cities havea requirement to be compact and sustainable. One of the major
factors that inﬂuences city planning is land use planning. This theme
therefore focuses on suburban land use planning for provincial cities.
While closely inspecting land use controls, including city planningareas, area division, the land development permission system, theIndividual developments distribution indistrict plan system and voluntary ordinances by local governments,
urbanization control area included of
we seek to highlight the issues between actual development andTunami Hazard area : Hamamatsu City
the systems & operations in place, and to inquire into issues relating
to them. In the 2016-2017 academic years, it is our intention to advance our research into international
comparative research into preventive measures for city shrinkage, research relating to formulation status oflocation optimization plans, etc.
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Theme 2
Study on history of modern urban planning and city making in Japanese cities
Japanese research into the history of modern urban planning has
been focused ﬁrst and foremost on large cities and colonial cities
from the world war period, but the development of domestic provincial
cities has not yet been fully explained. This research targets majordomestic provincial cities to which the old Urban Planning Act appliedin a relatively early period, and seeks to make clear the ideals behindthe planning and the planning techniques used in both the pre-warperiod and post-war reconstruction period. We also seek to makeclear the meaning this history holds today, and how it is continued ordiscontinued in current urban planning. In the 2016-2017 academicyear we intend to place our focus on the relationship between land
use planning according to the war damage reconstruction plan, andInitial concept association diagram for theland use planning in the period when the area division system was
Gifu post-war reconstruction urban planning
introduced.
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Theme 3
Study on urban design methods
Some of the issues faced by urban design
include three dimensional design, going beyond
two dimensional land planning on a regional
scale and allowing explorations of the form anddesign of buildings, processes that presume
Uncovering the riddle of the axis lines on the path leading to Zenkoji
the participation of a variety of planning bodies,
temple (left), A view of Ueda, as seen in the 1966 movie “The Inugamiʼsfamily” (middle), The same location in the summer of 2002 (right)
and the systems and income & expenditure
management required in order to realize thoseplans, while research into urban design seeks to uncover new values and regional planning resourcesin order to create rich urban spaces. For the 2016-2017 academic year, we are placing our focus on therelationship between post-war reconstruction urban planning and modern downtown development policies.