Proposal and Practice of Comprehensive Disaster Mitigation Depending on Communities in Preservation Districts for Traditional Buildings

Hajime Yokouchi

doi:10.20965/jdr.2015.p0857

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(2015)

doi: 10.20965/jdr.2015.p0857

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Proposal and Practice of Comprehensive Disaster Mitigation Depending on Communities in Preservation Districts for Traditional Buildings

Hajime Yokouchi

National Institute of Technology, Oyama College
771 Nakakuki, Oyama-city, Tochigi, Japan

Received:

May 31, 2015

Accepted:

August 1, 2015

Published:

October 1, 2015

Keywords:

comprehensive disaster mitigation, historical urban area, traditional culture, social capital, regional disaster mitigation

Abstract

We present a methodology for systematizing and implementing comprehensive disaster mitigation based on having communities target the preservation districts of traditional buildings. After discussing the background for this study, we introduce comprehensive disaster mitigation based on communities based on lessons learned from the relationship of stakeholders and earthquake damage sustained by Sakuragawa city’s Makabe traditional building district, in the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake. We then demonstrate the effectiveness of using social networks connected to community tradition and culture as their core, i.e., as a way for implementing our proposed practical comprehensive disaster mitigation in Tochigi city’s Kauemon-cho traditional building district.

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H. Yokouchi, “Proposal and Practice of Comprehensive Disaster Mitigation Depending on Communities in Preservation Districts for Traditional Buildings,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.10 No.5, pp. 857-873, 2015.

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[2] [2] Kumagawa-ku, “Guidance of the living in the Kumagawa-juku – To a person lived newly in here –,” p. 24, 2013 (in Japanese).

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[11] [11] S. Toyokawa, “Analysis on Practice of Developing New Leaders in Traditional Architecture Preservation District : Essey Contest for High School Students in Tochigi City and Establishment of Kura Club,” Japan Society for Urbanology 61^th Conf. Summary, pp. 38-39, 2014 (in Japanese).

[12] [12] https://www.facebook.com/tochigi.thc [accessed May 4, 2015]

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[15] [15] R. Takahashi et al., “Research on Fire Safety Performance of Post-earthquake Traditional Wooden Soil Walls,” Summaries of technical papers of annual meeting AIJ, Fire prevention, pp. 147-150, 2015 (in Japanese).

[16] [16] H. Yokouchi et al., “Research on Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Measures for Groups of Historic Buildings: Part 1–17.,” Summaries of technical papers of annual meeting AIJ, Structure III, September 2013, September 2014, September 2015 (in Japanese).