Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies

Part I.Introduction

1. Community-based Approach for Improving Vulnerable Urban Space
Tetsuo Kidokoro

2. The Vulnerable City: Coping with Disasters
Banasopit Mekvichai

3. Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting for Existing Low Earthquake Resistant Structures: The Most Important Issue for Earthquake Disaster Reduction
Kimiro Meguro

Part II.Improvement of Urban Vulnerability

4. Growing Vulnerability Crisis “Will Slums Ever Reduce or Improve?”: A Case from India
Vijay Neekhra

5. Identifying Housing Conditions in Bogota, Colombia: A Strategy to Deal with Risks
Francesco Ambrosi Filardi

6. Methodology for Intervention in Vulnerable Settlements in Medellin, Colombia: Urban Destructuralization in Relation to the Topography of the Territory
Juan Ricardo Mejia B.

7. From Wood Huts to Buildings of Seven Floors: An Analysis of the Process of Housing Production in the Slum of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a Fifty-Year Period
Gerônimo Leitão

8. The Incremental Improvement of the Area Densely Built-up with Old Wooden Houses in Tokyo
Hitoshi Nakamura

9. Thailand Urban Environmental Management: Case of Environmental infrastructure and housing provision in Bangkok Metropolitan Region
Vilas Nitivattananon, Chalika Noonin

Part III.Management of Natural Disasters

10. Seismic Vulnerability of Peruvian Houses: Current Issues and Solution Attempts
Paola Mayorca

11. Improving vulnerable urban space in post-disaster in yogyakarta and central java, indonesia: participatory and comprehensive approach
Suprayoga Hadi

12. Community Empowerment Program on the Revitalization of Kotagede Heritage District, Indonesia Post Earthquake
Laretna T. Adishakti

13. A review of the 921 post-earthquake community rehabilitation of the urban disaster area in taiwan
Kuang-Hui Peng, Yao-Chi Kuo

14. Earthquake as a Fact of Istanbul: Risk-based Strategy and an Action Plan for the Vulnerable Zeytinburnu Area
Ayse Sema Kubat, Engin Eyüboglu, Özhan Ertekin, Firat Sari

15. Structural Viewpoint
Mikio Koshihara

16. Vulnerability to Earthquake Disaster and Countermeasures in Tokyo
Takaaki Kato

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Keywords: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography SCI030000