Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies

Chapter 1 Community-based Approach for Improving Vulnerable Urban Space

Chapter 2 The Vulnerable City: Coping with Disasters

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

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

Chapter 5 Identifying Housing Conditions in Bogota, Colombia: A Strategy to Deal with Risks

Chapter 6 Methodology for Intervention in Vulnerable Settlements in Medellin, Colombia: Urban Destructuralization in Relation to the Topography of the Territory

Chapter 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

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

Chapter 9 Thailand Urban Environmental Management: Case of Environmental infrastructure and housing provision in Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Chapter 10 Seismic Vulnerability of Peruvian Houses: Current Issues and Solution Attempts

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

Chapter 12 Community Empowerment Program on the Revitalization of Kotagede Heritage District, Indonesia Post Earthquake

Chapter 13 A review of the 921 post-earthquake community rehabilitation of the urban disaster area in taiwan

Chapter 14 Earthquake as a Fact of Istanbul: Risk-based Strategy and an Action Plan for the Vulnerable Zeytinburnu Area

Chapter 15 Structural Viewpoint

Chapter 16 Vulnerability to Earthquake Disaster and Countermeasures in Tokyo