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PIMBT
Planning Institute of
Medicine-Based Town,
Waseda University
About PIMBT
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Name: Planning Institute of Medicine-Based Town (PIMBT)
Institution: Waseda University Comprehensive Research Organization
Director: Haruhiko Goto(Professor,Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Research Theme: Research into spatial planning technology for “Medicine Based Town” focused on a super-aging and shrinking society.
Overview of Research: Medical care, welfare, and health in the regions have become urgent challenges in the cities of Japan as it develops into a super-aging and shrinking society. This research specifically depicts the best approaches to urban spaces and social systems for towns with their focus on these challenges, from the perspectives of both medicine and city planning, and constructs the space planning technology needed to put these approaches into practice.
Through the establishment of home medical care and town medical care systems that do not depend on advanced medical care, the acquisition of compact urban structures that encourage people to leave the house on foot, appropriate management of increasingly de-urbanized suburban areas as recreation spaces, the construction of mechanisms for collaboration and cooperation among the many entities in a region, etc., we will create organic linkages of a variety of functions and measures related to medical care and welfare based on regions, and construct plans and practice theory related to systems to support medical care, welfare, and health in all of the regions.
Specifically, we have established the following six objectives and are aiming to achieve them within the research period.
(1) Establishment and theorization of schemes for “town medical care centers” as places for sub acute phase medical care, establishment of new construction and residential visions for handling “home medical care” and schemes for collaboration with medical care and welfare institutions, and development of the technologies to support these steps
(2) Establishment and theorization of schemes for mutually complementary reconstruction between regional medical care and welfare and the community
(3) Establishment and theorization of schemes for “spiritual care (creating a reason for living)” in residential spaces with the focus on the spiritual pain of elderly people
(4) Depiction of a vision of a workable city which contributes to improving the medical care and welfare of the region, and the establishment and theorization of specific measures to realize the vision (including reconfiguration of city functions and reconstruction of the parks and green spaces network)
(5) Urban transportation that creates a compact town and elucidation of the changes in the ways people go out as a result of the new urban transportation
(6) Construction of a framework for the many entities that would operate a “Medicine Based Town” to work together, verifying of the possibilities and challenges in policy support for construction of the framework
Research Report
We release reserch reports in english below.
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What is MBT (Medicine Based-Town)
MBT is a shortened term for Medicine Based-Town (A Town with Medicine as its base)
Originating from the idea of "Indoor Environmental Medicine" advocated by Dr. Hiroshi Hosoi, President of Nara Medical University, the concept expands into the realm of town and urban scale.
If we refer the 「Human Body」as a small vessel which travels through space and time delivering the genes of human society to the next generation, 「The City」(man-kinds ultimate creation) can be referred as the mother ship which delivers the genes of our society. Currently it can seem as if the opportunities between the fields of urban planning and medicine is scarce. But under the concepts of MBT, the overlapping of the research fields pertaining to “Human” health and “Urban” sustainability, aid in supporting the current societal demands and issues.
As we enter the 21st century, we are experiencing design issues relating to Japans shrinking society. This phenomenon is something that we have not experienced in the past. Thus new methods pertaining to smart shrinking are called for and are in question. We must especially deal with issues pertaining to the growth of aging population, which is rapidly increasing compared to global standards. Also the structure of traditional families has been torn apart as single-person households have increased, causing a dependence on local communities for nursing and public welfare services. But on the contrary, local communities are starting to collapse, being forced into a situation where it is difficult to over look future visions. A possible plan to breakthrough from this current situation is the realization of local comprehensive care, through the rebuilding of local communities, the entry of private businesses and the cultivation of non-profit organizations. Medical welfare also needs to take into consideration the social well being which aspires a variety of comfortable and affluent life style meeting the needs of a variety of individuals. In order to support this new form of medical welfare a new concept which includes “Town・Urban・Regional” perspectives will help tie physical and social space.
Under these social setting the distance between the fields pertaining to medical welfare policy and urban planning is rapidly shrinking. The resolution of various issues through the fusion of urban planning studies and medicine, through observing realistic lifestyles with the “town” as the stage, will become a big movement within the academic field in the near future. In todays aging and mature society the social demographic that affects the urban fabric can no longer be measured by a uniform group, where values and physical situations have become diverse. Thus it will be important to construct individual social networks and life history, which represents the unique characteristics, which will help provide a wide-range of social services. Historically the fields of medicine and urban planning, community design has dealt with individual human beings. Thus the fusion of the accumulated experience within the two fields can potentially provide techniques to energize residents and the city. This physical and social spatial concepts which help achieve these social goals is non other than Medicine-Based Town(MBT).
(Nara Medical University + Waseda University Research Report ”Medicine-Based Town Vision”)
Research Menbers
Planning Institute of Medicine-Based Town
Researchers
Haruhiko GOTO (Waseda University, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Takashi ARIGA (Waseda University, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Shinichi TANABE (Waseda University, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Akinori MORIMOTO (Waseda University, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Takeshi OAMURA (Waseda University, Senior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Shu-hsien LIN (Waseda University, Junior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Shota TAKAMINE (Waseda University, Junior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Shun YOSHIE (Waseda University, Junior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Adjunct Researchers
Hiroshi HOSOI (Nara Medical University, Director)
Kazuo MITANI (Mitani Family Clinic,President)
Yoshiko TATSUMI (Mitani Family Clinic, Vice President)
Mika NAKAMURA (Mika Universal Design Office, CEO)
Michirou YOSHIDA (BON Machitsukuri Company Inc., CEO)
Hirosuke SATO (Shibaura institute of technology, Professor)
Research Institute for Architecture and Community Design
Researchers
Haruhiko GOTO (Waseda University, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Takeshi OAMURA (Waseda University, Senior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Shu-hsien LIN (Waseda University, Junior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Shota TAKAMINE (Waseda University, Junior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Shun YOSHIE (Waseda University, Junior Researcher, Research Innovation Center)
Adjunct Researchers
Shu YAMAMURA (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Associate Professor)
Chungmin RHEEM(Waseda University, Junior Researcher, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering)
Yukinori Yamakawa
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Room 611, Bldg. 121, Waseda Univ, 513, Tsurumaki-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
ZIP162-0041
Planning Institute of Medicine Based-Town
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+81 (0)3-5286-3374
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https://www.facebook.com/PIMBT/
◆Yomiuri Online —Integrating Medicine and Urban Planning, Placemaking for the 21st century (Japanese)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/adv/wol/research/tokku_160223.html
◆Yomiuri Online —Integrating Medicine and Urban Planning, Placemaking for the 21st century (English)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/adv/wol/dy/research/tokku_160308.html
◆Waseda University “PIMBT” Introduction (English)
https://www.waseda.jp/inst/cro/other-en/2019/03/31/4777/
◆Cooperative Institution - Research Institute for Architecture and Community Development (Japanese)
https://www.waseda.jp/inst/oi/news/255
◆Reserch Institute of Science and Technology for Society
http://ristex.jst.go.jp/en/index.html
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