Beyond shelter : architecture and human dignity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Aquilino, Marie Jeannine, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Metropolis Books : [2011]
Subjects:
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.