Towards a "network community" for the displaced town of Namie, Fukushima

TY - JOUR

T1 - Towards a "network community" for the displaced town of Namie, Fukushima

AU - Shiraki, Rieko

AU - Murakami, Kayo

N1 - Funding Information: Kayo Murakami’s research interests lie in community development, neo-endogenous rural development, spatial planning and governance. After graduating from the Department of Architecture, Waseda University, Japan, and working as a Research Associate in the Goto Laboratory there, she was awarded her PhD from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK, in 2004. She worked as a lecturer at Waseda University for a further two years, then in 2006 joined the Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, as a Research Associate and Manager. In 2009, she moved to Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada and became an independent scholar and community development practitioner. She was Project Coordinator for the Wolfe Island Network for Healthy Community (WIN), funded by Ontario Ministry of Health (2010–2012). Email: murakamiwood@me.com David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. He is a specialist in urban issues, particularly public safety, resilience, security and surveillance in global comparative perspective, and has worked in the UK, Brazil and Japan, where he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellow, 2013–2014, based at Kwansei Gakuin University. Until 2009 was at the Global Urban Research Unit in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University. He is the co-author, with Jon Coaffee and Peter Rogers, of The Everyday Resilience of the City (Palgrave, 2009). Email: dmw@queensu.ca Funding Information: Satoshi Miyake is Associate Professor in Urban and Rural Design. His PhD was from the Department of Architecture, Waseda University, Japan in 2000. After 3.11, he was appointed as a committee member of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport-led “Recovery Pattern Inquiry” in Yamada Village, Iwaizumi Town and Tanohata Town in Iwate Prefecture. He is a member of recovery planning committees in Yamada, Tanohata and Noda villages. He continues assistance and support for Yamada and Noda villages, through community-driven machizukuri processes. He also has several advisory roles in the Iwate Prefecture Government: promotion of recovery machizukuri based on local culture and history, archives of oral histories about the tsunami, and guidelines for public restoration housing. Email: smiyake@iwate-u.ac.jp Funding Information: 2. The Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction grants. The budgets held by 5 ministries (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport; and Ministry of the Environment) are distributed to the local municipalities for projects (meeting set criteria) under the coordination by the Reconstruction Agency. By Date November 2013, a total of ¥1.6 trillion was distributed.

PY - 2014/4

Y1 - 2014/4

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VL - 15

SP - 250

EP - 255

JO - Planning Theory and Practice

JF - Planning Theory and Practice

SN - 1464-9357

IS - 2

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