Detailed Information

Research Field/Keywords for Research Field

• Urban Design, Community Development

Employment Experience

• 1990/04 - 1991/03 Technical Staff
• 1991/05 - 1997/03 Research Associate
• 1997/04 - 1998/03 Lecturer
• 1998/04 - 1999/03 Associate Professor
• 2000/04 - 2015/03 Associate Professor
• 2006/11 - 2007/07 Researcher  Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis University College London
• 2015/04 - 2016/03 Professor, Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University
• 2016/04 -  *  Professor, Faculty of Art and Regional Design, Saga University

Field of Specialization

• Design science, Clothing life/Dwelling life, Town planning/Architectural planning, Tourism Studies

Awards

• アジア景観デザイン学会　景観研究賞 （2015/11）
• 日本都市計画学会 計画設計賞 （2016/05）

Research Topics and Results

• Driving factors of urban sprawl in Giza Governorate of Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region using AHP method 2016/12
• Measuring people’s perception towards Earth-sheltered buildingsusing photo-questionnaire survey 2016/10
• Quantifying the Driving Forces of Informal Urbanization in the Western Part of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region 2016/06
• The Relationship between Landscape and Business Location in Itoshima Penninsula 2016/01
• Measuring Urban Sprawl Patterns in Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region 2016/01
• 土地利用と都市構造可視化 2015/11
• 糸島半島における店舗の立地と景観の関係性(その1) 2015/09
• 糸島半島における店舗の立地と景観の関係性(その2) 2015/09
• Modeling urban growth scenarios in Cairo Metropolitan Region 2035 2015/07
• MAIN FACTORS OF PEDESTRIANS' WAY-FINDING BY AN EXPERIMENT OF IMPRESSION EVALUATION ON MONTAGE PICTURES 2015/05

Original Articles

• Driving factors of urban sprawl in Giza Governorate of Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region using AHP method;　2016/12
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Land Use Policy ELSEVIER, Vol.58, pp.21-31
  AUTHOR;　Taher Osman, Prasanna Divigalpitiyac, Takafumi Arima
  
• Measuring people’s perception towards Earth-sheltered buildingsusing photo-questionnaire survey;　2016/10
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Sustainable Cities and Society ELSEVIER, Vol.26, pp.76-90
  AUTHOR;　Heba Hassan, Daisuke Sumiyoshi, Ahmed El-Kotory, Takafumi Arima, Aly Ahmed
  
• Quantifying the Driving Forces of Informal Urbanization in the Western Part of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region;　2016/06
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Environments, ,, June 2016, Vol.3, Issue 2
  AUTHOR;　Taher Osman, Prasanna Divigalpitiya, Takafumi Arima
  
• The Relationship between Landscape and Business Location in Itoshima Penninsula;　2016/01
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on City Planning and Environmental Management in Asian Countries, pp.209-214
  AUTHOR;　Rahma Hiromi, ARIMA Takafumi, Takeru SAKAI, Prasanna DIVIGALPITIYA, Kohei TAKAHASHI
  
• Measuring Urban Sprawl Patterns in Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region;　2016/01
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, pp.1-9
  AUTHOR;　Taher OSMAN, Takafumi ARIMA & Prasanna DIVIGALPITIYA
  
• STUDY ON CAUSES OF VACANT HOUSE AND LOT IN SLOPED URBAN DISTRICT FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF WALKING ENERGY EXPENDITURE;　2016
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), 81, 726, 1715 - 1722
  AUTHOR;　KIM Donggyun;ARIMA Takafumi;SAKAI Takeru
  
• Modeling urban growth scenarios in Cairo Metropolitan Region 2035;　2015/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management(CUMUP), CD-ROM
  AUTHOR;　Taher Osman, Prasanna Divigaloitiya and Takafumi ARIMA
  
• MAIN FACTORS OF PEDESTRIANS' WAY-FINDING BY AN EXPERIMENT OF IMPRESSION EVALUATION ON MONTAGE PICTURES;　2015/05
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Journal of City planning, Vol.50, No.1, pp.54-60
  AUTHOR;　Kihyun KANG, Takafumi ARIMA
  

General Lectures

• 糸島半島における店舗の立地と景観の関係性(その1);　2015/09
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　, 都市計画, pp.1107-1108
  AUTHOR;　RAHMA Hitomi, ARIMA Takafumi, SAKAI Takeru, DIVIGALPITIYA Plasanna and TAKAHASHI Kohei
  
• 糸島半島における店舗の立地と景観の関係性(その2);　2015/09
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　, 都市計画, pp.1109-1110
  AUTHOR;　TAKAHASHI Kohei, ARIMA Takafumi, SAKAI Takeru, DIVIGALPITIYA Plasanna and RAHMA Hitomi
  

Other Lectures

• 土地利用と都市構造可視化;　2015/11
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
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