PROPOSAL OF ANALYTICAL METHOD OF REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR EVACUATION CENTER FOCUSED ON QUALITY OF LIFE

Abstract

 The objective of this study is to find regional characteristics of evacuation center in Hitachi-city, Ibaraki Prefecture. Therefore, public facilities are used as an evacuation center in many disaster cases, ordinary it is not the design adapted to these purposes. For this reason, in case of use of the existing public facilities as an evacuation center, the problem of amenity arises in many cases. Depending on the kind of disaster, citizens may stay at an evacuation center for a long time period, and quality of life in the center and suburbs becomes important. The results of this study ware as follows; (1) It was proposed that the procedure to analyze the regionality of the evacuation center. (2) It was found that the regional characteristics of evacuation center, and found the points of improvement according to the regional analysis in Hitachi-city.