The post-disaster preservation of historic heritages in Chi-Chi (集集) township: learning from the 1999-9-21 earthquake in Taiwan

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On 21 September 1999, a major earthquake rocked Taiwan causing horrific casualties and damage. In Chi-Chi Township, at the epicentre, damage was so severe that 80% of the housing was unusable. Some of the historic buildings such as an old railway station and a traditional literati academy had been severely damaged. After the catastrophe, numerous damaged historic buildings urgently needed to be saved and preserved. Thus, an urgent rescue plan and execution strategy was needed. This brief has four parts: firstly, a general description of the survived historical building and related area preservation progress, then, some precious heritage sites surveyed and collected in Chi-Chi Township. The third part examines the advantages and disadvantages of the then policies, regulations and laws affecting historic properties. Lastly, a rescue and preservation task plan-proposal for historic buildings. This paper summarizes the earthquake damage to historic heritages in Taiwan and the government response in rescuing those historic buildings, aiming to serve as a reference for strategies to rescue the precious heritages, for and after, future disasters.
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