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Disaster Relief
02.03.11: Tim Culvahouse
The New Orleans Corner StoreOn Places, architect Tim Culvahouse continues his series on the built character of New Orleans, with a look at the humble but sociable corner store and its role in the restoration of the city.
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09.30.10: Tim Culvahouse
Stoop, Balcony, Pilot House: Making It Right in the Lower Ninth WardOn Places, architect Tim Culvahouse assesses the post-Katrina architecture in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans sponsored by Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation.
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09.20.10: Deborah Gans
Haiti and the Potential of PermacultureOn Places, architect Deborah Gans explores how the temporary resettlement camps in post-earthquake Haiti might be transformed into self-sufficient agrarian villages.
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09.07.10: Richard Campanella
New Fuel for an Old Narrative: Notes on the BP Oil DisasterOn Places, geographer Richard Campanella recalls a long hot summer, and sets the BP oil spill into the complex environmental and cultural contexts of America's third coast.
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04.05.10: Denise Hoffman Brandt
The View to America Street from Mrs. Fair’s Front Door, July 21, 2009On Places, landscape architect Denise Hoffman Brandt offers a vivid portrait of the ongoing post-Katrina struggles of one neighborhood, and one household, in New Orleans.
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04.01.10: Richard Campanella
Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: AfterOn Places, the second of a two-part essay by Richard Campanella, on the ongoing struggles of New Orleans to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
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03.29.10: Richard Campanella
Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: BeforeOn Places, an excerpt from Delta Urbanism: New Orleans, geographer Richard Campanella's account of the ongoing environmental and political struggles of post-Katrina New Orleans — and why a great American city remains pathetically vulnerable to further catastrophe.
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02.12.10: Thomas Fisher
How Haiti Could Change DesignHow might the Haiti earthquake change design practice? On Places, Thomas Fisher argues that designers need to develop practices that not only respond to crises that have happened but also proactively intervene in disaster-prone areas, with the goal of limiting damage in the future.
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01.27.10: Hector Fernando Burga
A View of Haiti from Liberty CityMiami-based urban designer Hector Fernando Burga asks difficult questions about how urban designers can respond effectively to the disaster in Haiti.
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05.19.09: Linda Samuels
Infrastructural OptimismLearning from New Orleans, or why we really need a new New Deal.
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10.15.08: Pablo Suarez, Graham Saunders, Sandra Mendler, Isabelle Lemaire, Jorge Karol, Laura Curtis
Climate-Related Disasters: Humanitarian Challenges and Reconstruction OpportunitiesREAD MORE
