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Beyond shelter : arc...
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Beyond shelter : architecture and human dignity / edited by Marie J. Aquilino.
New York, NY : Metropolis Books : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2011.
Subjects
Architecture and society.
Common good.
ISBN:
9781935202479 (pbk.) :
1935202472
Description:
303 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
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Twenty-five reports from the field by leaders of architecture and engineering firms, non-profits, research centers, and international agencies, on disaster prevention and sustainable recovery efforts in urban and rural locales around the world.
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