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Study Abroad · Urban Design Studio · Tokyo
Tokyo Smart City Studio: the city as an urban laboratory.
Tokyo skyline at night · Photo by Freeman Zhou on Unsplash
About the program
A smart and ecologically sound community, developed as a pilot project to demonstrate how a smart urban community is designed, evaluated and implemented in Japan, with Tokyo as an urban laboratory.
The studio brings together experts and stakeholders in urban design and modeling, urban analytics for big data, Internet of Things (IoT) technology, smart home, smart mobility, eco urban performance evaluation, and the green finance industry.
Program overview
Shinagawa, the Tokyo Bay waterfront, and a new maglev gateway to Tokyo.
The next Tokyo Smart City Studio will investigate Shinagawa and its surroundings at the Tokyo Bay waterfront area in the context of the new maglev high-speed rail station area development, one of the biggest urban development projects in the City of Tokyo of the next decade. The super-high-speed maglev rail station will make Shinagawa the new gateway to Tokyo and will shorten the travel time between Tokyo and Kyoto to around 60 minutes.
The new infrastructure will change the concept of space and time of inter-city relations and will have a profound impact on the urban form, urban functions, and urban experiences of the city. The project aims to develop a smart urban setting to demonstrate how a smart community is designed, evaluated, and implemented in Japan by incorporating governmental agencies, stakeholders and communities.
Studio focus areas
The fields the studio draws together.
Urban design and modeling
Urban analytics of big data
Internet of Things (IoT)
Smart home and smart mobility
Eco urban performance evaluation
Green finance
An international joint effort
Tokyo provides a testbed of complex urban form, and agglomerations of physical, cultural, and technological systems.
Global Carbon Project
National Institute for Environmental Studies
NIES, Japan
Department of Urban Engineering
Course
An intensive six-credit-hour Urban Design studio.
- Tokyo Smart City StudioCP 60536 credits
- Total credit hours6
Students are encouraged to take relevant GIS and visualization courses in advance. A series of tutorials on visual and modeling techniques is conducted in the first stage of the studio.
Eligibility
Who can enroll
Master's students from the Architecture, Urban Design, GIS, and City and Regional Planning programs.
Preparation
Students are encouraged to take GIS and visualization courses, or to have some design and visualization skills, in advance of enrolling.
How to apply
Enroll in CP 6053 during the spring registration phase. The travel dates for the studio are forthcoming.
Program cost
Students take part in an international field trip to Tokyo for a workshop. Previous studios arranged complimentary local accommodations, supported by our local partners in Tokyo (NIES), during the travel period; the arrangement is likely to be the same.
Students pay for international airfare, travel insurance, local transportation, living expenses in Tokyo, and a visa to enter Japan if required.
- Estimated costsAmount
- Airfareapprox. $1,500
- Travel insurance$12.80
- Total, incl. living expensesapprox. $2,300
Questions?
Contact the studio director for more information. If you can't find what you were looking for, we'll get you to the right place.
