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Vulnerable Cities:

Realities, Innovations and Strategies

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Editors:
  1. Tetsuo Kidokoro

    1. Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Junichiro Okata

    1. General Center Sustainable Urban Regeneration, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Shuichi Matsumura

    1. Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  4. Norihisa Shima

    1. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Part of the book series: cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (LSUR, volume 8)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  3. Improvement of Urban Vulnerability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 76-76
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    2. Growing Vulnerability Crisis “Will Slums Ever Reduce or Improve?”: A Case from India

      • Vijay Neekhra
      Pages 77-103

    3. Identifying Housing Conditions in Bogota, Colombia: A Strategy to Deal with Risks

      • Francesco Ambrosi Filardi
      Pages 105-118

    4. Methodology for Intervention in Vulnerable Settlements in Medellin, Colombia: Urban Destructuralization in Relation to the Topography of the Territory

      • Juan Ricardo Mejia B.
      Pages 119-139

    5. From Wood Huts to Buildings of Seven Floors: An Analysis of the Process of Housing Production in the Slum of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a Fifty-Year Period

      • Gerônimo Leitão
      Pages 141-168

    6. The Incremental Improvement of the Area Densely Built-up with Old Wooden Houses in Tokyo

      • Hitoshi Nakamura
      Pages 169-185

    7. Thailand Urban Environmental Management: Case of Environmental infrastructure and housing provision in Bangkok Metropolitan Region

      • Vilas Nitivattananon, Chalika Noonin
      Pages 187-208

  4. Management of Natural Disasters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 210-210
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    2. Seismic Vulnerability of Peruvian Houses: Current Issues and Solution Attempts

      • Paola Mayorca
      Pages 211-223

    3. Improving vulnerable urban space in post-disaster in yogyakarta and central java, indonesia: participatory and comprehensive approach

      • Suprayoga Hadi
      Pages 225-240

    4. Community Empowerment Program on the Revitalization of Kotagede Heritage District, Indonesia Post Earthquake

      • Laretna T. Adishakti
      Pages 241-256

    5. A review of the 921 post-earthquake community rehabilitation of the urban disaster area in taiwan

      • Kuang-Hui Peng, Yao-Chi Kuo
      Pages 257-274

    6. Earthquake as a Fact of Istanbul: Risk-based Strategy and an Action Plan for the Vulnerable Zeytinburnu Area

      • Ayse Sema Kubat, Engin Eyüboĝlu, Özhan Ertekin, Firat Sari
      Pages 275-298

    7. Structural Viewpoint

      • Mikio Koshihara
      Pages 299-316

    8. Vulnerability to Earthquake Disaster and Countermeasures in Tokyo

      • Takaaki Kato
      Pages 317-330
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About this book

All cities are vulnerable. They have economically, socially, institutionally vulnerable urban space.

In developing countries, vulnerable urban space can be observed typically as substandard informal settlements such as slums or areas occupied by squatters. At present, slum dwellers comprise one-third of the world's urban population of 3 billion, and it has been estimated that the number of slum dwellers will double in the next 30 years if no effective action is taken. Improvement of vulnerable urban areas, which is one of the targets of Millennium Development Goals, is thus an urgent worldwide challenge in our age.

This book combines empirical and comparative analysis of improvement of vulnerable urban space and post-disaster rehabilitation in Asian and Latin American countries. The discussions presented herein will serve as a useful, thought-provoking source for researchers, practitioners and students, especially for those who are working to alleviate the vulnerability of urban space.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Tetsuo Kidokoro

  • General Center Sustainable Urban Regeneration, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Junichiro Okata

  • Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Shuichi Matsumura

  • Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Norihisa Shima

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