• Makoto Yokohari

    Professor, Department of Urban Engineering
    Steering Committee Chair and Supervisor, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative
Biography

Dr. Makoto Yokohari is Professor at Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate Program in Sustainability Science. After completed graduate program at the University of Tokyo, he has worked at the National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba and The University of Tokyo.

Research Fields

Professor Yokohari’s main research interests are in the forms and functions of open spaces in urban fringe areas. He deals with planning concepts of green open spaces including parks, farmlands and woods in the urban fringe areas of Asian megacities and the evolving processes behind the form and function of green open spaces in new towns in Japan.