Reconstructing Kobe

The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity

By: David W. Edgington

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Six thousand people died and hundreds of thousands lost their homes when an earthquake hit Kobe in January 1995. The Hanshin Earthquake was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters to strike a developed country. Although the media focused on the disaster's immediate effects, the long-term reconstruction efforts have gone largely unexplored.

Based on fieldwork and interviews with planners, activists, and bureaucrats, Reconstructing Kobe records the first ten years of reconstruction and recovery and offers detailed descriptions of the geography of crisis and opportunity. Which districts were most vulnerable to the quake and why? Did planners successfully exploit opportunities to revitalize the city and make it more sustainable and disaster proof? David Edgington's intricate investigation of one of the largest redevelopments in recent history offers a compelling post-disaster case study for planners and policy makers and is essential reading for students and scholars of Japanese urban and planning history.

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David Edgington's fine analysis of the Kobe earthquake (officially known as the Hanshin Awaji Great Earthquake) places the event within a wider context of urban planning and disaster planning in Japan and examines the long-term impact of the earthquake. In so doing, it provides the reader with one of the most precise dissections of the Japanese planning system that has yet been written, as well as furnishing a profound insight into the various aspects of urban Japan.

-- Paul Waley * Urban Studies, 49:1151-1153 *
Edgington presents a richly descriptive account, based on meticulous data collection, of the urban planning and urban management aspects of Kobe's long-term recovery from the Hanshin earthquake. The painstaking quality of the research is evident throughout the book, which imparts the key lessons of Kobe's experience with disaster recovery. -- Keiichi Sato, University of Tokyo (Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Gibbons) * Social Science Japan Journal, vol 14, no 2, Summer 2011 *

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Abbreviations	p. xix
Glossary of Japanese Terms	p. xx
Introduction	p. 1
Earthquakes and Urban Reconstruction	p. 17
The Problem of Post-Disaster Reconstruction	p. 17
Japanese Planning and Administrative Practice	p. 26
Kobe and the Hanshin Earthquake	p. 35
Kobe up to the Time of the Earthquake	p. 37
The Geography of Crisis	p. 49
The Planning and Reconstruction Response	p. 77
Actions Taken by the National Government	p. 77
Actions Taken by Local Government	p. 91
Protest, Participation, and the Phoenix Plan	p. 105
The Citizens' Protest	p. 107
The City's Response and the Commencement of ôMachizukuriö Planning	p. 110
The Phoenix Reconstruction Plan	p. 114
Review by the National Government	p. 120
Neighbourhood Case Studies	p. 127
Shin-Nagata in Western Kobe	p. 129
History of Shin-Nagata	p. 129
The North Shin-Nagata Land Readjustment Scheme	p. 135
The South Shin-Nagata Urban Redevelopment Project	p. 148
Moriminami in Eastern Kobe	p. 160
Symbolic Projects and the Local Economy	p. 179
Funding for the Symbolic Projects	p. 180
Kobe's Economy and the Plight of Small Firms	p. 186
The Chemical Shoes Industry	p. 191
Attracting New Industries and Firms	p. 194
The Kobe Airport and the City's Debt	p. 199
Conclusion	p. 209
Was the Ten-Year Reconstruction Plan Successful?	p. 211
What Were the Major Influences on Kobe's Reconstruction?	p. 219
The Geographies of Crisis and Opportunity	p. 221
Lessons for Japanese Cities	p. 226
Are There Lessons for Other Cities?	p. 229
Appendices
Chronology of the Ten-Year Reconstruction Period in Kobe (1995-2005)	p. 233
National Government Relief and Recovery Measures, 1995	p. 244
Major Reconstruction Actions Taken by Local Government in 1995	p. 248
Notes	p. 251
References	p. 269
Index	p. 287
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