The purpose of this paper is to clarify the actual state of the building evacuation in Sendai and relationship between the building evacuation and preceding plans (urban planning, air defense urban planning). The building evacuation in Sendai was planned as many provincial cities implemented it at the end of WWII. The designation of its area was strongly affected by preceding urban planning and air defense urban planning. Accordingly, it seems that intention of implementing urban planning by using the building evacuation worked.

The projects and the relationship among public entities over diversion of evacuation sites to urban planning sites * Shunsuke SAITO The purpose of this paper is to clarify the state of the disposition of building evacuation sites in Sendai and its process and background while paying attention to business environments surrounding the disposition in central ministries and Sendai. Reflecting the policy of central ministries, in Sendai, it was planned to divert two evacuation sites to streets. However, due to differences in business environments, only one street was completed. Considering the relationship between war-damage reconstruction and prewar urban planning and building evacuation, three streets coincided with preceding plans, and prewar urban planning streets were succeeded to war-damage reconstruction through building evacuation.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the state of the disposition of building evacuation sites in Sendai, including the processes and background, whilst considering the project environment surrounding the disposition in central ministries and Sendai. The Home Ministry, which had been responsible for building evacuation during the wartime period, consistently promoted the conversion of evacuation sites into urban planning sites immediately following the end of World War II. The Ministry of Transport and the War‐Damage Reconstruction Institute also planned to convert evacuation sites into urban planning sites and railway land. Therefore, in Sendai, there were plans to convert two evacuation sites into streets. However, due to differences in the project environment surrounding the disposition of evacuation sites; such as the number of evacuated houses, required expenses, regional characteristics, and differences in project characteristics; only one street was completed. Considering the influence of pre‐war urban planning on building evacuation, and thus war‐damage reconstruction: three streets coincided with preceding pre‐war plans, and the pre‐war urban planning street was taken over in a manner consistent with war‐damage reconstruction through building evacuation.