The Actual Conditions of the Ordinances Related to the Preservation and Utilization of the Ruins of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Abstract

Several municipalities affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake have been preparing damaged buildings and structures as “Earthquake ruins.” There were no standard planning methods for the earthquake ruins, and they preserved them in various ways according to their reconstruction situation. This article extracted six municipalities that have established nine ordinances for the preservation and utilization of the earthquake ruins: Tanohata Village and Miyako City in the Iwate Prefecture, Kesennuma City, Higashimatsushima City and Yamamoto Town in the Miyagi Prefecture, and Tomioka Town in the Fukushima Prefecture. The contents of the ordinances were compared and examined, while considering the positioning of the earthquake ruins, the planning methods and so on.