CHANGE OF COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES IN SUBURBAN RESIDENTIAL AREA, BETWEEN NORMAL TIME AND AFTER DISASTER: The case of detached housing area Turugaya residential district in Sendai city

This study aims to make clear the factors and characteristics of people in communication activities responding to East Japan great earthquake disaster by focusing on the consciousness and actual condition of the communication activities in detached housing area, 1. Changes in communication activities of a normal time and after disaster People who were active in normal times have a tendency for exchanging with neighboring more after disaster. On the contrary, people who were not very active, have a tendency for specializing in communication with families and relatives. 2. Characteristics from the viewpoint of consciousness The type of “limited” limits their communication partner to “hobby and friend”. The type of “not” can not have communication due to “ Facility”, “Aging” and “Disease”. 3. Complaints and demands The current complains are “neighborhood association”, “the way of neighborhood association in disaster”, “response of city government of evacuation” and “construction schedule of ditch digging”. The demands are “restoration of citizen center”, “proliferation of meeting place”, “improving shopping center” and “evacuation drill in normal time”.