Planning for Urban and Regional Resilience / Exercise 1

A lot of communities and cities in Japan and across the globe are exposed to the risk of disasters. In this course, each student will be requested to set an individual research theme, and will pursue its research by conducting surveys and analysis in the research field. It is important that students have a clear awareness of issues, and to establish firm research methods.

Research projects focus on multidisciplinary studies across architectural, environmental, social and urban engineering fields with an emphasis on how to realize safe, resilient, diverse and vibrant communities and cities.

1. Students will learn the basic concept of planning for urban and regional resilience.
2. Students will learn about the technical analysis and integration methods of planning for urban and regional resilience.
3. Students will learn about the strategies of planning for urban and regional resilience.

Japanese(English accepted)

Each student will be requested to set an individual research theme, and will pursue its research by conducting surveys and analysis in the research field.

Students will be evaluated not only on final research results, but on intermediate stage results and on amount of works conducted. Presentations will also be evaluated.

References are shown as needed each time.

It would be ideal for students to visit several types of urban and rural areas.

• Lunch break on Wednesday.
  Questions by email can be accepted at any time.
  E-mail (Prof. Nakamura): nakamu-h@shibaura-it.ac.jp

Environment-related course (25%)

Regional Cooperation PBL

• Course that cultivates an ability for utilizing knowledge
• Course that cultivates a basic interpersonal skills
• Course that cultivates a basic self-management skills
• Course that cultivates a basic problem-solving skills

Most classes are interactive