Reports of the City Planning Institute of Japan
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The Housing Recovery Process and the Supporting Programs in the Tottori Earthquake Disaster in 1943
Shohei Beniya
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2008 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 9-14

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There was a great earthquake in Tottri-city called the Tottori earthquake in 1943. This paper clarified the condition of public and private temporary houses, and explained the housing reconstruction process and the support programs on this disaster. The housing reconstruction supporting programs on the Tottri earthquake disaster had some characteristics. To give sufferers temporary living places rapidly and effectively, the partially destroyed houses were mended prior to other supporting programs such as constructing public temporary houses. The private rented houses were rebuilt and the temporary houses were constructed on the private sites with public supports. These measures of housing recovery was effective against the insufficiency of building materials and labors in World War.

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