Abstract
The Hanshin Awaji Great Earthquake was an city-type disaster, which strongly appealed to the public how insufficient the improvement of housing environment in dense city areas. On the other hand, as seen in the spectrum of problems in suffered dense city areas, “hollowing out” phenomena became manifest in the reconstruction process. The phenomena was attributed to the social system, a manifestation which resulted from an interweave of economical, legally financial, social and cultural conditions where have delayed the improvement.
In what follows, to examine structural problems underlying the “hollowing out”, I will analyze conditions for reconstruction, noticing individual actions of housing reconstruction, and comparing households who could repair their houses on their own with households who could not.
In section 1, I will clarify the following points: states of density in research areas; conditions of damage occurrence; macro characteristics of the situation in the housing reconstruction. In section 2, I will deal with elements which have effects upon the decision-making of individual housing reconstruction, taking their process into consideration. In section 3, I will analyze conditions for reconstruction from perspectives of economical power, utilization of legal system and social relations, individual consciousness of housing.
