Building Reconstruction After Large-Scale Disasters A Case Study of Ishinomaki City After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Ubaura, Michio; Nieda, Junpei; Miyakawa, Masashi

doi:10.20965/jdr.2016.p0780

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“…Both the current literature and government material have written extensively about the physical reconstruction progress at Ishinomaki, such as Ubaura, Nieda, and Miyakawa (2016), who studied the urban spatial transformation after the GEJE. While some scholars have analysed post-disaster recovery processes from a social perspective, most have focused on the immediate phase after disasters and the description of best practice of disaster relief (Chan, Man, and Lam 2019;Goldfine 2011;Rotolo and Berg 2011).…”

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Creative Revitalization in Rural Japan

Yao

Imai

2022

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Different disasters throughout history have prompted Japan to develop diverse approaches to recovery, revitalization, and local resilience. The current global COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. In this paper, we argue the need to study the impacts of COVID-19 on outside major cities such as Tokyo as such areas were already experiencing socioeconomic decline. Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture is a city that has also been undergoing extensive post-disaster reconstruction after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), notably through various bottom-up approaches, often initiated by volunteers and migrants bringing new, creative ideas to community revitalization. These efforts continue to shape the social life of its residents during COVID-19, making Ishinomaki an important case study in both disaster reconstruction and rural revitalization. This paper examines examples in which creativity played a key role in revitalization, recovery, and community resilience in Ishinomaki over the last decade to shed light on current creative revitalization initiatives at the grassroots level, initiated and carried out by citizens. Drawing on an ethnographic approach conducted remotely in the form of semi-structured interviews, the paper presents the personal narratives of a diverse range of residents and social networks committed to rebuilding the soft infrastructure that is often overlooked compared to hard infrastructure. The paper proposes suggestions for the future based on lessons learned from the past decade, and hopes to illuminate how Japan’s rural areas are adapting to a new normal in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Creative Revitalization in Rural Japan

Yao

Imai

2022

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“…Disaster management and disaster settlement address the significant challenge of tremendous opportunities to promote traditional techniques and technologies of building design and construction management (Surwase et al, 2019). The building and construction industry has realized that disaster settlements should fulfill users' requirements while ensuring quality performance of the project life-cycle through a sustainable design and construction approach (Shafaghat et al, 2014;Ubaura et al, 2016;Keyvanfar et al, 2018). The construction industry has aimed to move toward projects that can build, operate and renovate more efficient and affordable houses, and simultaneously meet users' needs and requirements more effectively.…”

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Sustainable Post-Disaster Settlement (Sps) Assessment Model for Evaluating Performance of Construction Management in Post-Flood Risk-Reduction and Recovery

Keyvanfar¹,

Shafaghat²,

Ya’Acob³

et al. 2021

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Understanding post-flood risks and construction management capacities can help us handle disasters effectively and appropriately. The construction professionals need a post-disaster assessment model capable of evaluating construction management performances and capabilities from social, economic, and technical aspects. This research developed a universal decision support tool called Sustainable Post-disaster Settlement (SPS) assessment model. The research has two objectives. Objective one is to investigate and identify the performance indicators of construction management for post-flood risk reduction and recovery, which were classified to sustainability bottom-line clusters (social, economic, and technology), and three sub-clusters (cost, quality, and time) by applying critical literature review method. The research identified 42 indicators and revealed that SQ 2 . Layout Requirement and SQ 1 . Flexible design should be extensively considered in post-flood disaster settlement. Objective two was to measure the weights of indicators by employing the content analysis and rescaling normalization methods. It found that the social cluster (AX S Sum = 2.298) is more critical than finance and technology clusters in post-flood disaster settlement. Having the weights of indicators, the SPS assessment model was formulated, which was validated by using the Weighted Sum Method. The validation study determined that the SPS model is practically usable for performance evaluation of construction management projects.

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“…や、各市町村の定めるいわゆる 3411、3412 条例による規制緩和区域での開発実態に着目したもの (3) などがある。また、今次震災の被災地域における都市空間の復興過程を扱った研究には、一自治体或いは浸水被害の大きいとされる複数の自治体に着目し、被災市街地における震災後の建築動向から市街地形成の過程について明らかにしたもの (4) (5) や、農地転用に着目して震災後の都市空間の形成状況について論じたもの (6) The purpose of the study is to clarify the actual urban form of municipalities along the coast and its problem after the Great East Japan Earthquake by focusing on the spatial distribution of development permission. As the result of the study, the authors point out following three conclusion.…”

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