Yasushi Asami is Professor at the Department of Urban engineering, University of Tokyo, and Director of its Institute of Innovation in International Engineering Education (IIEE). He holds a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. His specialization is urban planning, housing policy and spatial information science. His recent research projects include the “management of local government with multi-layered functional areas of social services”, “development of analytical tools of temporal-spatial information”, “influence of physical and social environment to walking behavior” and “vacant houses and social system”.
Recently published:
Shun Kawakubo, Shuzo Murakami, Toshiharu Ikaga, Yasushi Asami (2017) “Sustainability assessment of cities: SDGs and GHG emissions” Building Research & Information, DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2017.1356120.
Masatomo Suzuki and Yasushi Asami (2017) “Tenant Protection, Temporal Vacancy, and Frequent Reconstruction in the Rental Housing Market” Real Estate Economics, Online, DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.12205
Masahiro Taima, Yasushi Asami, Kimihiro Hino (2017) “The relation between block size and building shape” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analysis and City Science, on line first DOI: 10.1177/2399808317702897