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Planning and Design in Kesennuma: Remember, Reconnect, Reform

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Before the 2011 disaster, Kesennuma was a key city on the Sanriku coast, with a population of 75,000. Major industries included fishing, marine products processing, and shipbuilding. While the ria geography of the coast provides a wealth of natural resources, disaster risk comes along with it.

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  • River Mouth
  • Disaster Risk
  • Community Planning
  • Reconstruction Project
  • Great East Japan Earthquake

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  1. Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

    Wanglin Yan

  2. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia

    Rob Roggema

  3. EME Design, Melbourne, Australia

    Luke Middleton

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    Rob Roggema

  2. Faculty Environ. Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

    Wanglin Yan

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Yan, W., Roggema, R., Middleton, L. (2017). Planning and Design in Kesennuma: Remember, Reconnect, Reform. In: Roggema, R., Yan, W. (eds) Tsunami and Fukushima Disaster: Design for Reconstruction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56742-6_7

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