Yesterday, several news stories appeared regarding the placement, planning, and construction efforts for the rebuilding of shelter for the displaced Haitians. Common to the articles was the tension that exists between the need for immediate housing, what will happen as settlements become increasingly more defined as places, and the need for more permanent solutions with [...]
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February 4, 2010, 2:13 pm | Tags: Buckminster Fuller, constant, Geodesic Dome, Haiti, New Babylon, reconstruction, temporary settlements | | Comments are closed
The creation of temporary settlements, particularly for displaced persons, is a frequent one – but primarily for both governments and NGO’s seeking to create safe loci, with proper (albeit) minimal infrastructures and amenities, for a short period of time. The agencies that engage in this discourse are civil servants, engineers, and aid organizations. The newly homeless [...] January 25, 2010, 10:37 pm | Tags: Haiti, reconstruction, temporary settlements | | Comments are closed
© Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH via Getty Images Aid continues to arrive in post-quake Haiti, and survivors, without homes, are seeking shelter. Currently, the dislocated and dispersed survivors are living in temporary makeshift tents, in the still unstable urban core / epicenter. Efforts are now being made to transport the survivors into new, [...] January 22, 2010, 6:28 pm | Tags: aftermath, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, informal settlements, temporary settlements | | Comments are closed
Although this is my first post, I will save introduction / exegesis / confession / apology for another time. I wanted to jump right into the pool in response to today’s post on the future of the reconstruction of Haiti and design professionals. As a current Masters of Landscape Architecture candidate at the Harvard GSD, [...] January 20, 2010, 8:21 pm | Tags: aftermath, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, reconstuction | | Comments are closed
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