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Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti
Author(s) -
Merkel Jayne,
Whitaker Craig
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1147
Subject(s) - port (circuit theory) , politics , order (exchange) , history , political science , sociology , political economy , economy , law , business , engineering , economics , finance , electrical engineering
The devastation of Port‐au‐Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010 makes this issue of AD especially pertinent, and the subsequent earthquake in Chile shows that strategies to rebuild after each crisis must be very different. Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker argue that, although there is much to be learned from previous disasters, no single response pertains. In Haiti, international architectural talent and expertise are irrelevant ‐ even undesirable ‐ until the social, cultural and political factors that helped devastate this once verdant and prosperous land are better understood. It is important to move slowly at first in order to go faster later. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.