Form and express personal opinions about a topic related to urban planning presented at the beginning of class.
(1)To understand the city and regional planning in various contexts and from different points of view such as technology, culture, law, and economics as well as in its temporal expansions such as history and life cycle, and to be able to explain the city and regional planning methods.
(2)Actively participate in workshops and study trips and be able to make flexible, theoretical and practical propositions for today’s urban spaces issues.
(3)To consider the natural coexistence of human and environment.
To achieve these goals, students are required to do the following self-study outside of classes:
1) Organize urban issues.
2) Choose a nearby city and examine its regional characteristics and desired image.
3) Organize problems in land use.
4) Organize problems in urban transportation and consider improvement measures.
Outline:
This course will be developed by faculty member who has worked in architectural and construction companies overseas. The course will cover essential topics of city and regional planning from early theories to newly established theories. The course will explain the contents from architectural and civil engineering perspectives. Students from civil engineering and architecture departments are required to be able to have a comprehensive understanding about city and regional planning and view urban spaces from planning point of view.
The course encourages students' participation in group discussions on each topic as well as the final group presentation.
Style:
The lectures focus on the textbook and lecture notes that summarize the main points of the book.
Notice:
Students are expected to have basic ideas of the city and regional planning and to understand the background of the problems in modern cities. Students are expected to attend every class, take short quizes from previous lectures, and ask questions during classes or use Q and A cards.This course requires 90 hours of self-study time to do preliminary reviews, reviews, and assignments. Evaluation consist of 50% in class participation and 50% group presentations. Students who miss 1/3 or more of classes will not be eligible for evaluation.
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Goals |
| 1st Semester |
| 1st Quarter |
| 1st |
Introduction: Aims of the course, What is city? What is region? What is planning?
Definitions of a city, rural area, urban planning, regional planning Class discussion: What sorts of city do people want to live? City as opposed to countryside
Assignment explanation |
to understand the definition of different scales of settlements. Can start the discussion and thought of cities for the people.
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| 2nd |
History of Cities, History of Urban and Regional Planning,
Birth of a city, expansion, and decline
Naturally developed city and manmade city
City for the people by the people of the people |
to understand and track hsutory of urbanism and settlement in cities. From organically formed to planned towns.
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| 3rd |
Development of Contemporary City, Town and Country Planning Act, Urban Planning in Japan, and in other countries
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to understand principles and city laws according to planning acts in Japan and global.
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| 4th |
New Town
Development of New Town , Garden City and One Center Town |
to understand the idea of new town development, one center city and Howard's garden city
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| 5th |
Urban Planning Process
Urban planning area, Non-Urban planning area
Building Regulations
Class discussion: What do you expect from a city?
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to understand and discuss process of urban planning through different disciplines, building regulations
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| 6th |
Urban and regional planning in Japan
Changes in Modern City Planning (Japan): Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei development of Tokyo City Revised Ordinance, the Old City Planning Act and the Post-War New City Planning Act and related systems, Machizukuri, community-driven planning.
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to understand the traditional city of japan, changes through modernization period, post war urban planning, and machizukuri.
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| 7th |
Transportation Planning, Regional Planning
Issues of urban transportation, Examples of U.S.A., Germany, and U.K., Country Planning and International Planning
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to understand best possible public and private transportation systems, and its issue. to Understand and discuss cases from USA germany and UK.
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| 8th |
Urban and regional planning for social life
Definition of public, private, semi-public spaces
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to understand different scales of urban people and its impacts on people's social life, to define public and provate spaces in urban, city and town environment.
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| 2nd Quarter |
| 9th |
Related field with Urban Planning, e.g. Urban Design
Urban Planning versus Urban Design
Beautiful Town, Comfortable Town, and Secure
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to understand differentces and connections between two fields
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| 10th |
New urbanism: Definition and examples
X minutes city, Post pandemic city
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to understand ideas and methods of new urbanism, and planning of the city based on different commute timelines.
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| 11th |
Smart cities
Nature based solutions for urban and regional planning
Future cities, Students' project selection, Sustainable Development and Future Out-look, The limit of Urban and Regional Planning, collaborations with other Fields
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to understand and discuss methods of smart city planning with perspective on SDGs and discuss existing issues and limitations of and climate change.
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| 12th |
Post disaster town planning
Urban and town recovery planning |
to understand the initials of disaster recovery by town planning and city planning.
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| 13th |
Assignment discussion
consulting the presentation |
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| 14th |
Presentation group 1
15 minutes per each team |
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| 15th |
Presentation group 2
15 minutes per each team
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| 16th |
No examination |
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