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Improving resilience capacities in a hazardscape, Otsuchi, Japan
G. Mujumdar (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
F.L. Hooimeijer – Mentor (TU Delft - Environmental Technology and Design)
Adam Pel – Mentor (TU Delft - Transport and Planning)
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Abstract
The project aims at contributing to integrated emergency planning in hazardscapes. The research takes the case of tsunami scape of Otsuchi, a town in the Iwate prefecture of Japan. Learning from the 3/11 disaster about the dependency of decisions that affect the nature of recovery has led to the formation of a methodology and guiding principles for the integration of emergency and contemporary planning. To enhance the effectiveness of preparedness, systemic dependencies of socio-technical factors have been examined based on the disaster resilience capital model of(Sakurai et al, 2016). The aim is to attain community resilience that mitigates and improves the capacity of dealing with returning disasters in the region. The method and principles are tested in the urban design of Otsuchi that envisions its urban renewal through the concepts and principles of social memory, identity revival, co-designing and wellbeing.