A Study on Building Restrictions in Early Stage after the Great East Japan Earthquake and its Effect on Urban Form After the urban area suffered serious damage caused by great disaster, the government may impose building restrictions on urban areas during the rebuilding.It is "Building Restrictions in Early Stage" based on Article 84 of Building Standards Law and Urban Disaster Recovery Promotion Areas(R.P.A). The purpose of this research is to obtain knowledge concerning the operation of building restrictions. From the results of this study, following conclusions can be drawn: Firstly, R.P.A was flexible operation by each afflicted municipality. Secondly, we need to extend the scope of building restrictions. In a future disaster, it is required that the system be linked to overall reconstruction, including disaster risk area designation, without restricting initial building restrictions to urban planning projects.

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Ishinomaki-machi-cafe had been established in the central district of Ishinomaki City after the Tohoku Earthquake as a platform of information, and we have accomplished support activity for community planning toward reconstruction at the cafe in cooperation with JIAMiyagi. We report purpose for establishment of Ishinomaki-machi-cafe and details of support activity in this paper. Desirable results and room for improvement at the present time are revealed.

This paper aims to compare the 'Urban function induction area' of Urban Facility Location Plan with the 'Future city structure map' of Urban Planning Master Plan, and to clarify the actual situation and problems between the two plans. More than half of the municipalities are found that the establishment defined. Such an inconsistency in classifying the areas can be said to become a problem in terms of these types of municipalities.

This study clarifies the actual situation of land utilization in the city center of Ishinomaki City after the Great East Japan Earthquake. It consists of the investigations of both the actual land utilization and the intention of vacant lots' owners, which bring useful result to promote the land utilization. As a result, the authors revealed following tendencies of land utilization. First, the lots which are utilized or intended to utilize are mainly owned by local government or temples, more than 300m 2 , and owned by large land holders. Second, the lots of which inundation height was less than 1.0m are used by private owners, whereas those of which inundation height was more than 3.0m are used for public projects. Third, the lots of which inundation height was 1.0 to 3.0m are tend to be unused. However, since landowners are willing to rent or sell their land under certain conditions, it is important to fulfill them.