Sustainable Urban Management

The course provides basic knowledge of civil engineering, architecture and urban engineering in the context of sustainable urban management. Planning and management from building, urban and national scale are taught. A one-day excursion related to the lecture will be organized for GSP students as part of the course.

Students may take this course concurrently with the Nanoscience, Japan in Today's World GSP and Introduction to the Japanese Language courses offered by the University of Tokyo.

Primarily for undergraduate students, although graduate students may apply. Students from non-engineering fields are also welcomed.

Lecture: 13 classes × 90 mins
Study visit/excursion: 8 hours

1. Introduction – Invitation to Sustainable Urban Management

2. Urban Engineering aspects

• Sustainability indicators for urban management
• Urban and Regional Planning in Japan
• Sustainable Management of Urban Water Systems
• New Roles and Missions of Sewage Works

3. Architectural aspects

• Housing Technologies for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
• Learning from Edo-Tokyo History for Sustainable Urban Redevelopment
• Air, Water and Energy system in Sustainable Building
• Design Ecology and Material Systems in Architecture

4. Civil Engineering aspects

• Urban Soil & Underground Management
• Urban Stock Management
• Urban Transport Management
• Urban Flood Management

This course is awarded 1.5 credits at the University of Tokyo. Your grade is determined based on a short quiz given in each class (13 in total) and 1 written final report of a few pages about the overall lecture topic. The evaluation weight of short quiz and report is 2:1. The 9 best scores of the short quiz will be used in the grade evaluation. Grades will be given as A, B, C or Failure. Attendance of at least 9 classes is required unless you obtain special permission in advance. Submission of the final report is compulsory.

Professors from Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Engineering will conduct this course. The course coordinator is Prof Keisuke HANAKI (Graduate School of Engineering)

For further information about the Hotel Kizankan, visit: http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~kizanweb

Note: Costs may change closer to the course

Tuition fee: JPY 22,200 

Accommodation: JPY 85,000 (does not included meals and other costs) 

Estimated living expenses: approximately JPY 3,000 per day