4/3

Outline

- Outline of the lecture
- Introduction to urban spatial planning

4/10

Urban planning in Japan

- City Planning Act and other legal systems
- Area classifications, zoning, FAR, and other key features

4/17

Environmental Impact Assessments and national planning in Japan

- EIA Act and its formal procedures in Japan
- Historical development of national and regional plans in Japan

4/24

District level planning in Japan

- Japanese planning schemes, including land readjustment, urban redevelopment, district planning

5/8

Transportation planning

- Urban transportation planning
- Street planning

5/15

Urban economics

- Economy of scale for cities
- Land price and rent, benefits from public works

5/22

History of cities

- History of cities around the world
- History of cities in Japan

5/29

Theories for garden city and new town

- Garden city movement by E. Howard
- Newtown developments in England and Japan

6/5

Theories for modern cities

- "Ville Radieuse" of Le Corbusier
- "Death and Life of American Cities" by J. Jacobs

6/12

Emerging tools for planning

- Tactical urbanism
- Transition management
- Living lab and urban design centers

Site Visit
(Tuesday morning 9.00-11.30)

- Urawa Misono Newtown
- Most recent (and probably the last) residential new town development in Japan
- No group travel: meet at Urawa-Misono Station

Site Visit
(Tuesday)

- Yokohama Minatomirai 21
- Large-scale urban (re)development in the waterfront area