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Planning and Design of Earthquake Disaster Relief Corridor in Stricken Cities —— Taking the design of the Yucheng District, Ya’an as application case
City Safety is one of the most important issues facing humanity today. In the last century, given the frequency and intensity of earthquakes, globally as well as in China, more attention was paid to earthquake and disaster prevention approaches. China is one of the most affected countries in the world concerning earthquakes, so Chinese people and urban planners have intensified efforts of mitigating its disastrous effects. Therefore, establishing and improving continual and effective urban disaster prevention public space played an important role in preparations for a disaster. Lessons from the Great Tokyo Earthquake in Japan, the Great Tangshan earthquake in China etc. show that the city parks and green space played an important role of refugee disaster evacuation and preventing the spread of after-shock fire. In this thesis, I introduce a new design concept - earthquake disaster relief corridor - as a tool for disaster mitigation by open public space design. Literature from European and Japanese experience in disaster mitigation is used to gain experience of defense, evacuation of disaster victims and disaster recovery by reconstruction. The aim of thesis was thus to use the urban disaster prevention approach to formulate a design proposal for the Yucheng District, the main city area of Ya’an, with the goal of creating an effective emergency shelter system and a continual relief corridor. To address the aim, there are two research questions in this article: (1) How can a relief zone contribute to disaster mitigation? (2) How can a relief zone be designed in the case of Ya’an, Sichuan, China? As a new idea of urban public space design, urban earthquake disaster relief corridor will go through the overall city, generally start and end by rivers or mountains. In the normal days, the disaster prevention public spaces are entertainment, leisure and fitness places for citizens. When earthquake happens, their disaster prevention function will start immediately and become important urban disasters barriers. The relief ...
Planning and Design of Earthquake Disaster Relief Corridor in Stricken Cities —— Taking the design of the Yucheng District, Ya’an as application case
City Safety is one of the most important issues facing humanity today. In the last century, given the frequency and intensity of earthquakes, globally as well as in China, more attention was paid to earthquake and disaster prevention approaches. China is one of the most affected countries in the world concerning earthquakes, so Chinese people and urban planners have intensified efforts of mitigating its disastrous effects. Therefore, establishing and improving continual and effective urban disaster prevention public space played an important role in preparations for a disaster. Lessons from the Great Tokyo Earthquake in Japan, the Great Tangshan earthquake in China etc. show that the city parks and green space played an important role of refugee disaster evacuation and preventing the spread of after-shock fire. In this thesis, I introduce a new design concept - earthquake disaster relief corridor - as a tool for disaster mitigation by open public space design. Literature from European and Japanese experience in disaster mitigation is used to gain experience of defense, evacuation of disaster victims and disaster recovery by reconstruction. The aim of thesis was thus to use the urban disaster prevention approach to formulate a design proposal for the Yucheng District, the main city area of Ya’an, with the goal of creating an effective emergency shelter system and a continual relief corridor. To address the aim, there are two research questions in this article: (1) How can a relief zone contribute to disaster mitigation? (2) How can a relief zone be designed in the case of Ya’an, Sichuan, China? As a new idea of urban public space design, urban earthquake disaster relief corridor will go through the overall city, generally start and end by rivers or mountains. In the normal days, the disaster prevention public spaces are entertainment, leisure and fitness places for citizens. When earthquake happens, their disaster prevention function will start immediately and become important urban disasters barriers. The relief ...
Planning and Design of Earthquake Disaster Relief Corridor in Stricken Cities —— Taking the design of the Yucheng District, Ya’an as application case
Fu, Xuejun (author)
2014-01-01
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