Who better to tell the story of what the international humanitarian community didn’t do after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti than the Haitian government? The…
What are experts around the world saying about equity and resiliency in cities? Two members of the Resilient Urbanism team (Anna Konotchick and Kate Crawford)…
I was recently reading through some of the articles in The Guardian’s Resilient Cities series. One of the articles that struck my interest describes a…
What do integrated neighbourhood approaches in Port-au-Prince, camp management-based approaches in Baghdad and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok have in common? – well, a lot…
Rekanpe tet’w literally means “re-standing your head,” and refers to the process taken by Haitians to recover after the earthquake. The following quotes are excerpts…
By James Kennedy One of the major features of almost all disasters occurring in urban areas, is the large amount of rubble created, and the…
Crowdsourcing donations via text became standard after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, an attempt to gather coveted resources: undesignated funding. Not only are these some…
The ravines are perhaps the most public of spaces in Port au Prince: they serve as natural infrastructure, yet also stitch communities together and host…
