A Study on the Recovery Process and the Regional Contribution of Yuriage Wharf Morning Market After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the regional contribution of the place and space given by the commercial activities on the recovery process by the site reconstruction in the disaster hazard area, based on the reconstruction records of the facilities and the union which constitute Yuriage Wharf Morning Market (YWMM) and the circumstances of the early recovery of the market. It is helpful for the future reconstruction projects in disaster hazard areas to study this type of case, because the each reconstruction projects in the disaster hazard area stands as characteristic case of the recovery of the area, which is different from the case of central business districts.