A Practical Study of the Town Reconstruction Based on the Context of the Pre-Earthquake Community

A Case of the Post-Earthquake Land Readjustment Project Area in Morigu, Nishinomiya

Abstract

It gets important to reflect "the context of the community" on the town planning. Discussed in the following paper is reconstruction process in Morigu, Nishinomiya, a post-earthquake land readjustment project area damaged by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, supposing that the context of the community consists of four factors: the organizations, environmental issues, problems and the future, and information network systems of the community. And also analyzed that from the pre-earthquake to the present, as a consultant of the project. To conclude, I assert that the analysis of the context of the community is one of the effective methods of the town planning.