Cities and rural provinces change due to various reasons and its space changes accordingly. This class examines actual urban redevelopments and rural revitalization cases in order to clarify what kind of factors effect on changing the space, what kind of conditions are to be considered, and what kind of goals are to be set. In this class, specifically urban and rural problems and its physical design solutions are to be discussed. Japanese urban history will be also studied through local community, ‘Cho’, which leads to a discussion on relationship between emergence of local society and urban form. Through several case studies, urban and rural problems such as pandemic, earthquake, depopulation, poverty, terrorism, are to be examined in terms of social, cultural, and economic point of views. How these problems are reflected on physical space will be discussed as well.
Case studies will be impact of Covid-19 in the major cities in the USA and Europe, Reconstruction projects of Tohoku region, Revitalization of urban dilapidated districts and provinces in Japan, Syrian refugee impact to European cities, and African urban modernization.
In the 3rd period a lecture is conducted, and in the 4th period the topic of the lecture is to be discussed.