This report explains the Significance of Community Planning as a requisite for District Plans in Urbanization Control Areas, using the cases of hamlets in Hiroshima City. The report introduces a working process from a Community Plan to a draft District Plan, both in the semi-mountainous hamlet Ushiroyama, which is hoping to recover vitality, and the Seifu-shinto hamlet Ishiuchi, which, with a vision for the future, is seeking Urbanized Areas along main roads. By introducing both areas, the importance of resident-led Urban Planning is highlighted, by having the residents themselves decide on a Community Plan when settling on a District Plan as part of a greater master scheme.

The unprecedented damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, challenged the preparedness system and revealed failures in different aspects of the disaster prevention measures. However this event also provided valuable lessons and opportunities for improvement post-disaster responses focusing on multiple stakeholders' engagement in the recovery process, and particularly the participation from the civil society, through Japanese and International non-profit organizations, volunteers, community organizations and corporate philanthropy.This research explores the crucial issues and possibilities in the post-disaster community support activities which were experienced by International NGOs in the region of Tohoku, in a chaotic environment of massive destruction and culturally closed communities to outsiders. This study examines Habitat for Humanity Japan (HFHJ) as a case study. It attempts to analyze HFHJ's operational processes by examining projects conducted to ensure the recovery of the built-environment.

Hazard maps are commonly used as tools to indicate vulnerabilities of specific areas and provide information on risks such as poor infrastructure and fire hazards. However, potential risks with regard to living conditions have often been overlooked. In urban areas, where residents live in high-rise buildings, residing at such heights is considered a vulnerability factor for urban risk. This research focuses on the elderly population living in Kita ward, Osaka City, and aims to understand the relationship between the height of residence and the age of residents using GIS mapping. Findings show that by including the height of residence as a factor, risk index is significantly different, suggesting that planning of disaster prevention should not only consider housing condition but also the height of residence.

The objective of this research paper is to examine the problems of the future of the historical architectures. The research was conducted for the case of Imai-Cho, Kashihara-Shi, and a Conservation Area of Traditional Structures .The main purpose of the case study is to investigate how the conservation plans have been evolved and the maintenance worked has been done.

In recent year city or prefecture set up a vacant house bank to deal with increasing vacant house, but this bank does not play a role in its goal sufficiently because of scarcity of registered house. As a good countermeasure against scarcity of registered house, the policy measures of subsidy for house repair are implemented by city or prefecture, but the subsidy have the potential to be changed its effect by differential structure of subsidy. So in this paper, after we construct agent-based models that can weigh up the way of subsidizing house repair from registered house increase in vacant house bank and the business balance to research more effective the way of subsidizing house repair, and validate this models, we try to weigh up policy measures by implementing the simulation under some subsidy scenarios.

We first introduce a city walk event “100ninmap (Hyaku-Nin-Map, which means one hundred people map) in Kyoto”. In the event, participants send out their feelings with a smartphone while walking around a city, and we create “feeling maps” by summarizing them. As we built system to create maps and held the first event in downtown Kyoto, we report the detailed methods and results of them in this paper. Following that, we discuss the significations and further prospects of the project. Firstly, we can design a new map for sightseeing or walking around the city. Secondly, we can construct a common method for city walk events or workshops to find potentials and problems of the city. Thirdly, we can utilize our system for information sharing system in case of disaster. Finally, we can analyze the data to get various knowledge.

Land use change in industrial district is dramatically increasing in Korea. There are many cases of land use change to residential use based on the market demand. Unlikely, Korea government fosters a new deal program aimed at reviving the depressed construction industry that induces land use change to residential purpose. However, the mandatory changes lead to excessive supply–demand mismatches. There is oversupply risk of collective residential buildings such as high-rise apartments that causes not only vacancy rate but also low-quality residential environment.

Private gardens have a possibility for functional role in space for keeping greenery in urban area. However, it needs resident's self activities for greenery. We tried to analyze utilities and problems of greenery reflected in resident's image of private gardens. This paper presents text mining approach from free description about private garden and indicates resident's thought for greenery. The results show that residents recognize private gardens as the space of keeping greenery. It was clarified that residents gain healing. On the other hand, it was considered that older people desire to keep greenery. Nevertheless, they feel the burden of maintenance and reduce the greenery. It was clarified that private gardens are helpful to keep greenery and provide for healing. Furthermore, it is important to consider problem with maintenance.

New towns around megacity and their rapid emergence are being recognized as a significant change taking place in China. The phenomenon leads to more opportunities for sustainable development of the megacities. On the other hand, the process of new towns emerging is causing increasingly serious problems such as jobs-housing imbalance. Thus, the need for generating a profound understanding of new towns is evident to tap synergistic policy measures to tackle the challenges of future urban development. The major objective of this article is to analyze the issues and problems related to transportation system of new towns in key stages to discover a path of sustainable development in the future. This article synthesizes existing information and knowledge on new towns in the case of Shanghai, China.

There has been increasing disasters due to concentrated heavy rain in a short time recently according to the change of climate.Early evacuation is considered important for reducing the damage in case of flood disaster, however each resident's decision making and evacuation behavior vary based on their past disaster experiences and geographical and social condition of the residential area. This study researches on the case of typhoon12 in 2011 through an interview survey in Hongu area of Tanabe city, Wakayama prefecture. The result shows that people take actions based on their past experiences and their set of standard. Also, some residents had to move one from another since evacuation places are inundated.

There has been increasing disasters due to concentrated heavy rain in a short time recently according to the change of climate. Early evacuation is considered important for reducing the damage in case of flood disaster, however it is difficult to be prepared based on past flood experiences. Previous study shows past experiences do not necessary lead to early smooth evacuation. What kind of information and situation makes people decide to evacuate? This study research on the case of typhoon12 in 2011 through a questionnaire survey in Hongu area of Tanabe city, Wakayama prefecture. The result shows that people take actions while observing the condition of the river and behaviors of the neighbors instead of following instruction of evacuation from the local government.

The Great East Japan Earthquake and the massive tsunami with it were generated on March 11, 2011. The writers made the 1/500 restoration model which reproduced the town space before the earthquake disaster of Machikata area in Otsuchi town, Iwate prefecture that suffered crushing damage by this disaster. And we held the citizen participation type workshop that utilized this model. I arrange it and, in this report, unify the testimony of 810 people provided through the workshop and try the description of the aspect of life run in ex-town space by people. In addition, I examine possibility of the restoration of the place by the memory in the area that suffered crushing damage by an earthquake disaster.