Social Issues in Post Disaster Reconstruction Planning

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Fereshteh Navidi Majd ¹ , Alireza Andalib ²

1 - Ph.D. Candidate of Urban planning, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University
2 - Associate professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University

Received: 2012-09-10 Accepted : 2012-11-17 Published : 2013-03-01

Keywords: Post disaster reconstruction, Grounded Theory, Social structure, Social aspects of reconstructi, Manjil earthquake,

Abstract :

Post disaster reconstruction in the destructed zones entails the social aspects in addition to the physicaland urban aspects, because of the presence of affected people in the very location.The presented research aims to assess the social aspects of the post disaster conditions in the course of reconstruction,which take into consideration the related social factors in the affected community. The research also looks for the variousinfluential aspects of post disaster urban planning in order to achieve a different framework for the job.Since the subject might be considered as a new approach, and for the vast and numerous aforementioned aspects in theexpertise reference, the research method is based on “Grounded Theory” in order to analyze and categorize the givenapproaches.The results of theoretical studies have been compiled with the academic expertise viewpoints and with the opinions ofIranian experienced experts who were involved in the course of post war and post natural disaster reconstruction, throughthe face to face interviews. In order to benefit a practical implication of the theory, the post disaster reconstruction processof Manjil-a mountain town in Gilan, north of Iran- after the earthquake in 1990 has been analyzed and reviewed.The fulfillment of the research necessitates; assessment of social questions, collective behavior, individual needs andrequests of affected people, in the course of planning for post disaster reconstructions, and ultimately employment ofsocial capacity, as well as the relations among communal network at the entire level of the affected society.