Designing Process

Opportunities for Long-term Sustainable Urbanization in Post-Disaster Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

authored by

Christian Werthmann, Phil Thompson, Dan Weissman, Anya Brickman Raredon, Erdem Ergin

Abstract

Sustainable long-term urbanization of the Port au Prince Region cannot be created solely through the construction of houses. This document proposes an exemplary development process for a community at Zoranje in the Plain Cul de Sac; a process that defines sustainable land-use and building construction through the integral creation of jobs, infrastructures and social services. Through analysis and recommendations at four scales from the Port au Prince Region down to a Neighborhood, this proposal seeks to create long term replicable solutions that may be employed across the Port au Prince region, and throughout Haiti.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Landscape Architecture

External Organisation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Type

Project report/research report

No. of pages

180

Publication date

2012

Publication status

Published

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 15 - Life on Land