Structural damages to housing in Sendai City, the largest city in Tohoku Region, occurred in particular areas: on artificially modified hills. In order to meet the rapidly growing housing demand of the previous decades, housing estates have been developed on suburban hills through extensive artificial landscape modification. Hills were chosen for housing development since the plains were already urbanized or occupied by agricultural lands that are protected by planning, while suburban hills prev
Structural damages to housing in Sendai City, the largest city in Tohoku Region, occurred in particular areas: on artificially modified hills. In order to meet the rapidly growing housing demand of the previous decades, housing estates have been developed on suburban hills through extensive artificial landscape modification. Hills were chosen for housing development since the plains were already urbanized or occupied by agricultural lands that are protected by planning, while suburban hills prev