Resources
Welcome to our resource page, where we provide with useful links to urban design related institutions, scholars & luminaries in Japan and beyond. As we will continuously expand this link and resource section, we encourage you to check back regularly.
DEPT. OF URBAN ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
Urban Planning course
- Environmental Planning & Design Unit | Prof. Mikiko ISHIKAWA
- Housing and Urban Analysis Research Unit | Prof. Yasuji ASAMI & Prof. Yukio SADAHIRO
- International Development and Regional Planning Unit | Prof. Takashi ONISHI & Tetsuo KIDOKORO
- Urban Information & Safety System Unit | Prof. Osamu KOIDE
- Urban Land Use Planning Unit | Prof. Jun’ichiro OKATA & Prof. Hideki KOIZUMI
- Urban Transportation Planning Research Unit | Prof. Noboru HARATA & Prof. N. OMORI
Urban Environmental Engineering Course
- Environmental Microbial Functions | Prof. Takashi MINO & Prof. Hiroyasu SATO
- Environmental Risk Management and Quality Control Technology | Prof. Kazuo YAMAMOTO & Prof. Kensuke FUKUSHI
- Environmental Systems | Prof. Keisuke HANAKI & Prof. Kiyo KURISU
- Urban Water Systems | Prof. Satoshi TAKIZAWA & Dr. Kumiko OGUMA
- Water Environment Technology | PROF. Hiroaki FURUMAI & Prof. Hiroyuki KATAYAMA & Prof. Futoshi KURISU
Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Science
Other spatial planning related Laboratories at the University of Tokyo
- Architectural and Urban History | Prof. Takeshi ITO, Deptartment of Architecture
- Natural Environment Formation | Prof. Makoto YOKOHARI, Graduate School of Frontier Science
- Landscape Ecology and Planning | Prof. Kazuhiko TAKEUCHI, Department of Eco System Studies
URBAN DESIGN RELATED UNIVERSITY LABS
in Japan
- co+labo | Prof. Darko RADOVIC, Keio University
- going urbanics | Nakajima Lab SFC Prof. Naoto NAKAJIMA, Keio University
- Land Use Laboratory | Prof. Kenjiro OMURA, University of Tsukuba
- Muraki Laboratory | Prof. Miki MURAKI, Chiba University
- Nakai Lab | Prof. Norihiro NAKAI, Urban Planning Lab, Dept of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Satoh Lab | Prof. Shigeru SATOH, Dept of Architecture, Waseda University
- Urban & Architectural Design Lab | Prof. Masami KOBAYASHI, Dept of Architecture, Meiji University
- Urban Design Laboratory | Prof. Naomichi KURATA, Kogakuin University
- Morio UZUKI Lab | School of Social Sciences, Waseda University
International
- Columbia University | Urban Design Lab, The Earth Institute
- ETH Zurich | Architecture and Urban Design
- Harvard | Graduate School of Design
- LSE | London School of Economics, Cities Programme
- MIT | School of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Oxford Program for the Future of Cities | Said Business School, The University of Oxford
- Planetizen | Top Schools/ Programs for Urban Planners
- Stadslab | European Urban Design Laboratory
- Urban Architecture Laboratory | RMIT, Melbourne
GOVERNMENT
- MLIT | Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism
- TMG | Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Bureau of Urban Development
- TMG | Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Bureau of Environment
- The City of Yokohama, Urban Development Policies
URBANISM/ Japan
- 10+1 | complete back catalogue
- a small lab | Non-Intentional Design & alterations of space/objects at the public/private boundary in suburban Tokyo
- UDCK | Urban Design Center Kashiwa no Ha
- Tokyo Green Spaces | How Green Spaces can make Tokyo a livable City
- Tokyo Void Project | Linking Void with Potential
URBANISM/ International
- CABE | Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
- City Repair | Transforming Space into Place
- HD original video of William H. Whyte’s 'The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces'
- Planetizen Picks | Top Twitter Feeds on Urban Planning
- PPS | Project for Public Space
- Streetsblog | Blog about livable Streets in US American Cities
- Streetfilms | Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide
- Van Alen Institute | Projects in the Public Realm
- Worldchanging | Thinking alternative Urban Futures
ACADEMIC/ PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- AIJ | Architectural Institute of Japan
- CPIJ | City Planning Institute of Japan
- IPHS | International Planning History Society
- JILA | Japan Institute of Landscape Architecture
- JIA | Japan Institute of Architects
- JSURP | Japan Society of Urban and Regional Planners
ACADEMIC JOURNALS
- Berkeley Planning Journal (many open-source articles for free download)
- Environment and Planning
- Ephemera | Theory & Politics in Organisation
- Harvard Design Magazine (many open-source articles for free download)
- Japan Railway and Transport Review (complete back catalogue)
- Urban Affairs Review
- Urban History
- Urban Studies
RESEARCH RESOURCES
- Australian Research Council: List of ranked Journals and Conferences
- CABE | Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment: Publications on ‘The Value of Design’
- CINII | National Institute of Informatics Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator
- CityForward | Free web-based research database for visualising Urban Data
- Historical Agricultural Environment: interactive, historical Maps of the Kanto Plain (in JP)
- Index of Academic Journals for Architecture and the Built Environment
- Index of Academic Journals for Urbanism
- Journal@rchieve | full text Journal Database by the Japan Science and Technology Agency
- MLIT | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism: Aerial Pictures of whole Urban Japan in different Years
- MLIT | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism: GIS Data
- Mori Building’s Mid-Tokyo Maps
- MoJ | Ministry of Justice: English Translations of Laws
- Rissho University | Database of historical Maps
- TMG | Tokyo Metropolitan Government: Database of historical Pictures
