Exploring Urban Design Guidelines for Station Specific District with a Viewpoint of Urban Disaster Precaution

Questionnaire survey and analytic hierarchy process are applied for relation weight research, which proposes 10 items of evaluation factors to fit into urban disaster precaution concept. Furthermore, it obtains a list of equivalent correlation between urban design and urban disaster prevention.

Chia-Yi station specific district after undergroundization is the empirical example. To find disaster precaution problems at this district, local survey and disaster potential analysis such as urban renew area planning, ground surface gravity acceleration, soil liquefaction and inundation potential etc. are taken to establish a frame which includes 5 items of control principles of urban design: (1) controllable principles of land and building use, (2) planning principles of traffic and transportation system, (3) design principles of open space and greenness by plants, (4) controllable principles of building, and (5) controllable principles of buildings ancillary matter and advertisement signage.