Experience and Enlightenment from Japanese Old Residential Areas Renewal for Disaster Prevention: Case Study of Kyojima 2-Chome and 3-Chome in Tokyo
Abstract：
In the current process of urban regeneration in China, renewal of old residential areas for promoting the disaster prevention safety is a necessary measure to strengthen urban public safety and create a better living environment for residents. The practice of renewal of old residential areas is often hindered by many difficulties and constraints. Renewal for disaster prevention is more necessary to carry out research on key issues, planning and design countermeasures, and organization and implementation mechanisms. It is very important to analysis and sum up the international experiences. This paper studies the practice of disaster prevention renewal of Kyojima 2-chome and 3-chome in Tokyo. At the level of planning and design, it summarizes the main countermeasures about land rearrange, property right transformation, space renovation and building renovation. It analyzes the implementation and support mechanism from the six dimensions including risk assessment, project guidance, technical support, financial subsidy and participating organization. It also summarizes experiences and ideas for reference from six aspects, including dynamic adjustment for optimization of countermeasures and mechanism, property right transformation for cracking land restrictions, precise implementation for strengthening the effectiveness, support institution for improving the willingness to participate, normal governance for promoting continuous development, integrated and related clauses for establishing legal safeguards.