Beyond shelter : architecture and human dignity /
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New York, NY :
Metropolis Books :
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The architecture of risk / Victoria L. Harris
- Part 1. Architecture after disaster : Learning from Aceh / Andrea Fitrianto
- Beyond shelter in the Solomon Islands / Andrea Nield
- News from the Teardrop Island / Sandra D'Urzo
- From transitional to permanent shelter: invaluable partnerships in Peru / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Part 2. What should governments do? : When people are involved / Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam
- Citizen architects in India / Rupal and Rajendra Desai
- What about out cities?: Rebuilding Muzaffarabad / Maggie Stephenson, Sheikh Ahsan Ahmed, and Zahid Amin
- Part 3. Urban risk and recovery : Below the sill plate: New Orleans East struggles to recover / Deborah Gans with James Dart
- Slumlifting: an informal toolbox for a new architecture / Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner
- Sustainable communities: avoiding disaster in the informal city / Arlene Lusterio
- Camouflaging disaster: 60 linear miles of local transborder urban conflict / Teddy Cruz
- Cultural heritage and disaster mitigation: a new alliance / Rohit Jigyasu
- Part 4. Environmental resilience : Green recovery / Anita van Breda and Brittany Smith
- The home as the world: Tamil Nadu / Jennifer E. Duyne Barenstein
- Design as mitigation in the Himalayas / Francesca Galeazzi
- On beauty, architecture, and crisis: the Salem Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Sudan / Raul Pantaleo
- Part 5. Teaching as strategic action : Cultivation resilience: the BaSiC Initiative / Sergio Palleroni
- Studio 804 in Greensburg, Kansas / Don Rockhill and Jenny Kivett
- Sustainable knowledge and internet technology / Mehran Gharaati, Kimon Onuma, and Guy Fimmers
- Part 6. Is prevention possible? : More to lose: the paradox of vulnerability / John Norton and Guillaume Chantry
- Building peace across African frontiers / Robin Cross and Naomi Handa Williams
- Haiti 2010: reports from the field / Marie J. Aquilino
- Afterword : Open letter to architects, engineers, and urbanists / Patrick Coulombel.