The case of Chun-You Street fire in downtown Nan-Gan Township revealed problems in Lien-Chiang County (also known as the Matsu Islands), such as conflicts in reconstructing post-disaster historical areas and the socioeconomic vulnerability to disasters. The changing urban form during previous decades generated politically oriented planning policies, tourism development policies, a unique population, and socioeconomic vulnerability. This study used a participatory observation methodology and in-depth interviews to investigate the following issues of the Chun-You Street fire: (1) the diversity of the county emergency management system during the response stage and the unique recovery process of a historical site that is based on the clan system, (2) the vulnerabilities caused by residents' experiences in lacking daily supplies and the custom to store great amounts of materials, and (3) victims' unclear property rights and land uses pertaining to past verbal agreements creating an obstacle to the recovery of a historical area.
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Hung, C. T., Lin, W. Y., & Cheng, J. Y. (2013). The post-disaster reconstruction and socioeconomic vulnerabilities in the historical site of an island city: A case study of a fire incident in Nan-Gan Township, Lien-Chiang County, Taiwan. In Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development: Approaches for Achieving Sustainable Urban Form in Asian Cities (pp. 417–429). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5922-0_23
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