In the wake of major earthquakes public open spaces become hubs for both short-term
disaster response efforts and support longer-term recovery needs. At present, few open …

Since the 1990s, interest in place (as opposed to space) has surged across a spectrum of
social science disciplines including planning. But the empirical focus has been chiefly on …

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Despite the regularity of disasters, social science has only begun to generate replicable
knowledge about the factors which facilitate post-crisis recovery. Building on the broad …

Recently, scholars have turned to publicly available data to measure the resources and
vulnerability of communities in the face of disasters [1, 2]. However, when measuring …

This article is about the small spaces of the city we call 'places'. Places are shaped by being
lived in; they are spaces of encounter where the little histories of the city are played out …

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.
In fact, most cities claim to be compiled of neighborhoods, but this strays far from the term's …

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's
environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto …

This article discusses how traditional urban patterns can inspire planners to create
integrated urban environments which are more sustainable socially. Our focus is on the …

'Machizukuri'is translated by most commentators as 'place or city making'and mainly refers to
the direct participation of citizens into urban planning and construction. The present paper …