Image of Firefighters on a Search and Rescue Mission in Rikuzentakata Immediately Following the Tsunami, March 12, 2011
Title
Image of Firefighters on a Search and Rescue Mission in Rikuzentakata Immediately Following the Tsunami, March 12, 2011
Post-Disaster: Japan's Response to the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami
Subject
natural disasters; disaster planning; earthquakes
Description
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
The purpose of this research trip to Japan is to identify the qualities of successful post-disaster city planning and architecture, which can potentially be applied towards immediate and impervious strategies on a global level. Since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan has undergone massive improvements, due to advancements in construction technology, community-centered and forward-thinking designs as well as a general faith in rebuilding and recovery. Albeit, some of the tsunami-prevention strategies have stirred international controversy, the Japanese are the undoubted frontrunners in ensuring resiliency in saving human lives. Hopefully this information will shed light on some of the ways we as designers can rethink disaster-risk management and recovery.
Creator
Nuguid, Vail
Date
2011
Rights
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Vail Nuguid
Type
Humanities and Social Sciences
Identifier
T0416
Coverage
Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan
Files
Citation
Nuguid, Vail, “Image of Firefighters on a Search and Rescue Mission in Rikuzentakata Immediately Following the Tsunami, March 12, 2011,” Spitzer School of Architecture, accessed December 22, 2024, http://digitalscholarship.ccny.cuny.edu/architecture/items/show/1069.
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