Actual conditions and a planning review of collective relocation site from the view of changes in neighborhood relationships: Focusing on the collective relocation project for disaster prevention in Koizumimachi district, Kesennuma city, Japan

Abstract

Abstract This article aims to review a large‐scale collective relocation planning of the Koizumimachi district, which implemented concept of the Radburn housing design to mitigate the environmental transition after the Great East Japan earthquake. Based on actual conditions through 2‐year investigations after resettlement, it demonstrates that residents utilized the relocation site adapting to different issues of the community relocation: continuity of the previous district's neighborhood relationships and constructions of new ones due to integrated multiple districts. On the other hand, there is a mismatch between total housing land design and individual housing reconstructions in point of the correspondence between entrance direction and cul‐de‐sac.

Keywords

• collective relocation
• community
• environmental transition
• Great East Japan earthquake
• housing land design
• utilization