1998 Volume 63 Issue 513 Pages 219-225
We discuss the problems in the reconstruction process of housing area, heavily damaged by the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. We choose Sumiyoshi-area and analyze the transfigurations of this area before and after the earthquake through periodical field work survey and existing sources. Before the quake there exist problems as follows ; the mixture of detached houses and large RC condominiums and small timber apartment houses, the existence of some highly dense blocks with very narrow paths inside, many small lots and lots without appropriate accesses. Two years after the earthquake, October 1996, the reconstruction process of this area is revealing the hidden problems before the earthquake.
