Shigeru Satoh

• Professor, Urban Design and Planning
• Department of Architecture, Waseda University

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• Personal Data

Academic Degrees

• B.Sc.Department of Architecture, Waseda University,1973
• M.Sc.Graduate School of Science & Urban Planning, Major of Architecture & Urban Planning, Waseda University,1975
• Doctor of Engineering, Waseda University,1982

Awarded

• The Prize of AIJ 2000 in Research Theses Division “A Collaborative Path to Sustainable Urban Improvement − Urban Block Prototypes and Consensus Building”

Experience

• Research Assistant, Waseda University,1980-1982
• Lecturer, Waseda University, 1982-1984
• Associate Professor, Waseda University, 1984-1990
• Visiting Professor, University of Rome,1989
• Fellow, University of Califolnia Berkeley,1991-1992
• Professor, Waseda University, 1990-
• Director, Waseda Institution of Urban and Regional Studies,2003-

Activities in Academic Institute and Society

• Vice President of Architectural Institute of Japan, 2001-2003
• Director, The City Planning Institute of Japan

Field of Research

1. MOKUMITSU Disaster prevention in High-Density Wooden Housing Areas
2. The Design Principle of Castle Towns in Japan, ECOPOLIS
3. The Archetype (MACHIYA) and the Self-Sustaining Housing Area
4. The Apartment housing complex DOJYUNKAI
5. The Technique of Community Planning Participation
6. The Technique of Redevelopment and Urban Area Adjustment, YUDO-KUKAN
7. The Community Planning of reconstruction after the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and disaster prevention in High-Density Wooden Housing Areas
8. The Partnership of community Planning (TMO, NPO, SOHO, etc)
   
   Conducting research as a director of Waseda Institution of Urban and Regional Studies by constructing partnership with Local residents, community based organization, nonprofit organization, professional urban planner and researcher.
9. Overseas Research(Vietnam Hue)
   
   Workshop: Environmental Simulation Workshop on the Urban Design for Historical Eco-City cooperated with Restoration of Historical Monuments in Hue City,2002
   Report: Information Notes of Hue,2002(in English)
   Workshop report: International Urban Design and Conservation Workshop in Hue Royal Library,2003 March(in English)
   → Summaries of technical papers of annual meeting Architectural Institute of Japan

Publications

• Innovation in town planning policies and methods in old Japanese Castle towns since the Meiji Restoration, Planning and Housing Congress 1986 Adelaide,28th September - 3rd October (in English)
• The morphological transformation of Japanese castle-town cities, Urban Morphology vol.1, 1997 (in English)
• Urban Design and Change in Japanese Castle Towns, Built Environment Alexandrine Press,vol.24-4, pp.317-234, 1999
• INTERNATIONAL URBAN FORM STUDY, In cooperation of Seoul Development Institute and International Seminar on Urban Form, SEOUL, 2003, April
• Sustainable Community Improvement in Japan : Infill Redevelopment Where Everyone Can Continue To live, In cooperation of Seoul Development Institute and International Seminar on Urban Form, SEOUL, 2003, April
• INTERNATIONAL URBAN FORM STUDY, International Workshop on Urban Form, Trani, Italy, 2003, July
• Satoh shigeru, Min Seunghyeon, INTERNATIONAL URBAN FORM STUDY, Part of TOKYO, Seoul Development Institute,2004,Feburary
• The future of Tsugaru 1983, (Tsugaru Shobou Co.)(in Japanese)
• Century of Modern City Planning and Its Perspectives, 1989,(The City Planning Institute of Japan, Shokokusha Co.) (in English & Japanese)
• Modern History and Transition of Multi-Family Housing’s Morphology in Tokyo, 1989, Tokyo (Kajima Shuppan Co.)(in Japanese)
• Living Communities in Tokyo − past and future of Tokyo-, 1990,Tokyo (Shokokusha Co.)
• Castle-town Cities and their Modern Urban Morphology in Japan, 1995, Tokyo (Kajima Shuppan Co.)(in Japanese)
• Community Design to live throughout life, 1995,Tokyo (Kajima Shuppan Co.)(in Japanese)
• The Apartments DOUJUNKAI and its days (Kajima Shuppan Co.)(in Japanese)
• Scientific Method of MACHIDUKURI, 1999,Tokyo (Kajima Shuppan Co.)(in Japanese)

• Illustrated 53 Japanese Castle-Town cities.
• Published over 52 refereed papers 50 reports and professional papers and books in Japanese.