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Title:

Canaan, Haiti – New City of Hope. People, Houses, and the Forces of Nature after the Earthquake in 2010

Document type:
Buchbeitrag
Author(s):
Hannemann, Johann-Christian
Pages contribution:
62 - 72
Chapter contribution:
4
Abstract:
"Goudou goudou" is what Haitians call the earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti in January 2010. As many are injured, more than 1.3 million homeless. The state is powerless and destitute, the "international community" does not keep up the promises made—alone, the population rebuilds its habitat: "Canaan"—a new city is being built at the foot of barren Mornes du Pensez-y-Bien. Planned as relief camp, Canaan develops by the seizure of hundreds of thousands in only six years to t...     »
Keywords:
Landscape Urbanism; Community-based Development; Participatory Design; Canaan, Haiti
Dewey Decimal Classification:
710 Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung
Editor:
Lepik, Andres; Giseke, Undine; Keller, Regine; Rekittke, Jörg; Stokman, Antje; Werthmann, Christian
Book title:
Out There
Book subtitle:
Landscape Architecture in the Global Terrain
Publisher:
Hatje Cantz Verlag
Publisher address:
Berlin
Year:
2017
Pages:
160
Print-ISBN:
978-3-7757-4259-7
Language:
en
WWW:
Out There – Landscape Architecture in the Global Terrain
TUM Institution:
Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsarchitektur und öffentlichen Raum
Copyright statement:
Hatje Cantz, 2017
Format:
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