Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kidokoro, Tetsuo. (Editor), Okata, Junichiro. (Editor), Matsumura, Shuichi. (Editor), Shima, Norihisa. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration, 8
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-78149-3
Table of Contents:
  • Community-based Approach for Improving Vulnerable Urban Space
  • The Vulnerable City: Coping with Disasters
  • Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting for Existing Low Earthquake Resistant Structures: The Most Important Issue for Earthquake Disaster Reduction
  • Improvement of Urban Vulnerability
  • Growing Vulnerability Crisis "Will Slums Ever Reduce or Improve?": A Case from India
  • Identifying Housing Conditions in Bogota, Colombia: A Strategy to Deal with Risks
  • Methodology for Intervention in Vulnerable Settlements in Medellin, Colombia: Urban Destructuralization in Relation to the Topography of the Territory
  • 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
  • The Incremental Improvement of the Area Densely Built-up with Old Wooden Houses in Tokyo
  • Thailand Urban Environmental Management: Case of Environmental infrastructure and housing provision in Bangkok Metropolitan Region
  • Management of Natural Disasters
  • Seismic Vulnerability of Peruvian Houses: Current Issues and Solution Attempts
  • Improving vulnerable urban space in post-disaster in yogyakarta and central java, indonesia: participatory and comprehensive approach
  • Community Empowerment Program on the Revitalization of Kotagede Heritage District, Indonesia Post Earthquake
  • A review of the 921 post-earthquake community rehabilitation of the urban disaster area in taiwan
  • Earthquake as a Fact of Istanbul: Risk-based Strategy and an Action Plan for the Vulnerable Zeytinburnu Area
  • Structural Viewpoint
  • Vulnerability to Earthquake Disaster and Countermeasures in Tokyo.