Towards the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda

Chapter 1. The Transition Towards Sustainable and Resilient Cities-Urban Challenges and Solutions in Germany and Japan.-
Part I: Landscape Change and Management.-
Chapter 2 Dialectic Developments of 'City' and 'Country' in Japan's Metropolitan Regions.-
Chapter 3. Urban Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Offsets.-
Chapter 4. Sustainable Landscape Management and Landscape Management Labor Accounts.-
Part 2: Climate Change and Urban Green.-
Chapter 5. Modeling the Current and Future Urban Climate Using Downscaling Techniques.-
Chapter 6. Urban and Green Planning Based on an Evaluation of Urban Climate.-
Chapter 7. Demands, Opportunities and Constraints of Green Space Development for Future Urban Development under Demographic and Climate Change.-
Part 3: Environmental Risks in Urban Areas.-
Chapter 8. Environmental Risks in Urban and Regional Development -Assessing the Effects of Flood Resilience Technologies.-
Chapter 9. Flood Risks and Their Management in Urban Japan-Modeling Inner Flooding in Tsushima City, Tokai Region.-
Chapter 10. Pre-reconstruction Plans for Urban Areas in Japan.-
Part 4: Built Environment and Material Flow.-
Chapter 11. The Efficiency of Settlement Structures.-
Chapter 12. Weight of Cities-Material Stock and Flow Analysis Based on Spatial Database over Time.-
Chapter 13. Preservation and Utilization of the Urban Heritage of East Asia and Japan.-
Part 5: Urban Energy Concepts.-
Chapter 14. Revolution of Urban Energy System.-
Chapter 15. Building Energy Management: Performance Verification and System Simulation.-
Chapter 16. A New Concept for Air-Conditioning in Japan: An All-Air Supplied Induction Radiant Air-Conditioning System and Cool Room.-
Part 6: Future Challenges of Planning.-

Chapter 17. Operationalizing Urban Resilience-Learning from the Past while Preparing for the Future. The Case of Dresden, Germany.-
Chapter 18. Reconsidering Urban Planning through Community-based Initiatives.

Chapter 19.

Hiroyuki Shimizu is an emeritus professor of Nagoya University. He studied architecture at the Faculty of Engineering of the University Tokyo and received the doctoral degree of Engineering ibidem. During his studies at the University Tokyo he obtained a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study for two years at the University of Hanover, Germany.

From January 1986 to August 1989, he taught architectural planning at the Faculty of Engineering of Chiba Institute of Technology as an instructor and associate professor. In September 1989, he moved to School of Engineering of Nagoya University as an associate professor, and became a professor in January 1996. In this period, he has developed his research fields not only in architectural planning but also in urban planning. In April 2001, he moved to the Graduate School of Environmental Studies due to university reorganization. This graduate school is a new integrated organization combining the inter-disciplinary academic fields of social sciences, engineering and natural sciences. Furthermore, it aims to solve both, global and local environmental issues from scratch. According to this academic policy, he expanded his new research field to landscape planning and management. The results of his studies are published internationally for instance in the following books: