Course General Description

A lot of communities and cities in Japan and across the Globe are exposed to the risk of disasters, like flood, earthquake, fire, and tsunami. Research projects in the Laboratory of Planning for Urban and Regional Resilience focus on multidisciplinary studies across architectural, environmental, social and urban-engineering fields with an emphasis on how to build a safe, resilient, diverse and vibrant city - rather than disaster-protected but unlivable area. Ongoing main researches and projects are as follows: Land use planning and environmental design for adapting to the global climate change, Study on the flood risk management plan and its related measures. Reevaluations of the seismic resilience of the densely built-up areas using fire spread simulations. Supporting project to assist the community-based environmental improvement activities in the densely built-up areas, Study on community design and social systems for adapting to super-aged society, Supporting project to assist the community-based reconstruction process from the 3.11 earthquake disasters, Development of image training programs for post-disaster urban reconstruction.

School General Description

The Shibaura Institute of Technology (芝浦工業大学 Shibaura Kōgyō Daigaku), abbreviated as Shibaura kōdai (芝浦工大 Shibaura kōdai), is a private university of Technology in Japan, with campuses located in Tokyo and Saitama. The Shibaura Institute of Technology enjoys a moderately high reputation nationally, ranking 26th in the 2017 edition of Truly Strong Universities, 48th in Times Higher Education Japan University rankings for 2018(out of 775 institutions), and joint 7th among private universities in terms of entry difficulty (in STEM)[7]. While the average acceptance rate is in the region of 20-30%, the applicants per place ratio approaches or exceeds 20:1 in some departments. Shibaura is the only private technology university in Japan to have been selected for the Top Global University Project.