{"id":151,"date":"2019-05-03T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T04:19:27","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/intro","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a period of strong economic growth Japan has become one of the world\u2019s largest economies with well-developed social infrastructure. However, even with extensive road, water, harbors, and other extensive infrastructure facilities, the powerful Roman Empire fell into financial difficulties due to the enormous maintenance costs of these facilities, and even though they moved the capitol to Constantinople the Roman Empire was eventually ruined. History thus shows that the enhancement of social infrastructure is a double-edged sword, as it both enhances the prosperity of society but may also bring about decay and ruin.<\/p>\n<p>Providing infrastructure facilities for a safe living environment for the prosperity of people changes over time and with social conditions, but instead of changing the role of infrastructure, we need to change or must change the improvement of the management methods, as we can learn from the past lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Based on ICUS\u2019s past 10 years of activity, the purpose of the \u201cnew\u201d ICUS is to identify, investigate, and resolve issues towards the realization of sustainable urban systems for the prosperity and safety of society considering challenging socio-economic problems such as depopulation and aging society, shrinking economic resources, advanced technology, environmental awareness and climate change, dense and decentralized urbanization, and so forth. Specifically, three research divisions \u2013 \u201cUrban safety and disaster mitigation division,\u201d \u201cEnvironment informatics division,\u201d and \u201cSocial infrastructure management division\u201d \u2013 will form the core of the \u201cnew\u201d ICUS, and activities in these fields are intended to fulfill the objectives of \u201cpromotion of advanced research,\u201d \u201cconstruction of networks,\u201d and \u201cinformation collection and dissemination\u201d considering the above-mentioned socio-economic problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1309 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/595bedc4e0d8d002d65312300964aacc-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/595bedc4e0d8d002d65312300964aacc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/595bedc4e0d8d002d65312300964aacc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/595bedc4e0d8d002d65312300964aacc.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a period of strong eco&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"27"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}