Proposal for Continuous-Recovery Residential Area Plan for Compact Plus Networked Cities

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to propose a new method of housing reconstruction for future large-scale disasters similar to the Nankai Trough Earthquake. Rather than the traditional method of housing reconstruction, this new method proposes a continuous-recovery residential area plan. This new recovery plan is designed to address two issues: first, the emotional and financial burden on the disaster victims as well as the very high cost of building and removing temporary housing. The other is planning a Compact Plus Networked city to build a sustainable society. The new continuous-recovery residential area plan will focus on planning for the conversion of temporary housing to recovery housing for continued use in the residence induction area of the location normalization plan. In an era of declining population, it will be difficult for the government to bear the cost of reconstruction projects after future large-scale natural disasters, with the cost as high as in the past yet a smaller tax base to fund it. A new recovery plan that can reduce the cost needs to be considered.