Ten Years of Pre-Disaster Community Development for Post-Disaster Recovery in Tokyo

Considering about an estimated dreadful damage by earthquakes centered directly under the capital city, the pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery is a vital countermeasure. In this paper, those pre-disaster planning activities were discussed. There are 5 sections. Firstly, backgrounds and early studies are reviewed. Secondly, positions of a pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery were discussed from a view of city-planning studies. Thirdly, the "drills for disaster-recovery machizukuri" as the field for machizukuri for post-disaster recovery were analyzes. These drills were mainly methods and activities for pre-disaster planning activities. Fourthly, the efforts made in Nerima Ward for drills are reviewed. Fifthly, the concrete results of the pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery are discussed, and finally the future challenges and directions of the pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery are mentioned.