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Title:

Designing for Uncertainty: The Case of Canaan, Haiti

Document type:
Buchbeitrag
Author(s):
Hannemann, Johann-Christian; Werthmann, Christian; Hauck, Thomas
Pages contribution:
323 - 351
Chapter contribution:
17
Abstract:
 When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, its rising, fragile democracy was, once again, profoundly reminded of its own weakness. The magnitude 7.0 quake hit the most densely populated region of the country causing the death of more than 300,000 people, injuring 300,000 more, leaving more than 1.3 million people homeless, and destroying large parts of the country’s habitat and infrastructure. Relief and reconstruction in the aftermath of the catastrophe revealed many lesson...     »
Keywords:
Landscape Urbanism; Community-based Development; Participatory Design; Canaan, Haiti;
Dewey Decimal Classification:
710 Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung
Editor:
Czechowski, Daniel; Hauck, Thomas; Hausladen, Georg
Book title:
Revising Green Infrastructure
Book subtitle:
Concepts Between Nature and Design
Publisher:
CRC Press
Publisher address:
Boca Raton
Date of publication:
06.11.2014
Year:
2014
Pages:
488
Print-ISBN:
978-1-4822-3220-2
E-ISBN:
978-1-4822-3221-9
Language:
en
DOI:
doi:10.1201/b17639-21
WWW:
Chapter 17. Designing for Uncertainty: The Case of Canaan, Haiti
TUM Institution:
Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsarchitektur und öffentlichen Raum
Copyright statement:
CRC Press, 2014
Format:
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