“Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters.
“The Kobe earthquake of 1995 devastated one of Japan’s major cities, leaving over 6,000 people dead while destroying or making unusable hundreds of thousands of structures. It toppled elevated freeway segments, wrecked mass transit systems, and damaged the city’s port capacity.
“’It was a shock to a highly engineered, urban city to have undergone that much destruction,’ says Miho Mazereeuw, an associate professor at MIT who specializes in disaster resilience…
“’We [think that] through technology and engineering we can solve things and fight nature. Whereas it’s really that we’re living with nature. We’re part of this natural ecosystem.’…
“’What we can do for ourselves and each other is have plans in place so that if something does happen, the level of chaos and fear can be reduced and we can all be there to help each other through,’ Miho Mazereeuw says.”
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Link to MIT Urban Risk Lab.
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