147: Living with disaster: Building the cities of the future

After a large earthquake struck Turkey and Syria last week, those of us living in Japan can’t help but worry about something similar happening here. This week, we speak to Prof. Hitoshi Abe, an architect who has some ideas on how to start designing our cities to better deal with such inevitable disasters.

Hosted by: Shaun McKenna and Jason Jenkins, and produced by Dave Cortez.

On this episode:
Hitoshi Abe: Website

Read more/Watch more: 

• How researchers in disaster-prone Japan and the Pacific are rethinking city design (Will Fee, The Japan Times)
• Battle to stop Kagoshima seawall highlights divide over coastal engineering (Mara Budgen, The Japan Times)
• Ten years on from 3/11, do you think you're ready for the 'Big One'? (Eric Margolis, The Japan Times)
• New Vision for Regenerative Urbanism (Small Table) (UCLA Architecture and Urban Design)
• From lessons of 3/11, Japan scientists share knowledge of disaster resilience across Pacific (Will Fee, The Japan Times)

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• Association for Aid and Relief, Japan
• Tokyo Camii and Diyanet Turkish Culture Center

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Photo: A man walks along the seawall near Watanoha, Miyagi Prefecture. | OSCAR BOYD