Urban disasters

Japanese: 都市災害 - としさいがい
Urban disasters
Urban disasters are urban disasters, disasters that occur in cities, but as the technology that supports urban activities has been modernized and urban space has been used more and more, the nature of disasters has undergone a qualitative transformation, and there are cases where it is easier to explain them by generalizing them with the new concept of urban disasters. Generally, the term is used when the scale of damage caused by a disaster is on an urban scale, but it is also used to refer to cases where the nature of the city itself has expanded the scale of damage, or to various disaster phenomena that occur in urban areas where the population and facilities are concentrated.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
都市災害とは,都市的災害,都市における災害のことであるが,都市活動を支える技術が近代化され,都市空間がますます高度に利用されるようになると,災害の態様が質的変貌を遂げ,都市災害という新しい概念で総括したほうが説明しやすい場合が出はじめている。一般的には災害の被災規模が都市的スケールの場合にも用いられるが,都市のあり方そのものが被災規模を拡大させてしまったような場合や,人口や施設が集中している都市部だから起こってくる多様な災害現象の場合を都市災害と総称している。

出典 株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について 情報

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