January 1995
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Kobe and its surrounding cities were heavily damaged by the 1995 South Hyogo Earthquake. In order to clarify the usage and the damage of open spaces within the area under such a situation, a survey was carried out by Japanese Institute of Landscape Architects(JILA), approximately within the 3rd and 4th week following the Earthquake. The author surveyed mainly public parks in Hyogo, Nagata and Suma ward in Kobe City, and then compiled the data. The purposes of this paper are to publish a regionally limited part of the results from the survey and to discuss the clarified problems regarding the safety of the area.