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  • DESIGN FOR FRAGILITY
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    DESIGN FOR FRAGILITY
    ESTHER CHARLESWORTH / JOHN FIEN
    The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civil conflict, (un)natural disasters, political instability, and poverty. The number of people fleeing their homes and being displaced by such conflict now totals almost 100 million. Despite the massive human and physical costs of thes...

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  • SUSTAINABLE HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION
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    SUSTAINABLE HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION
    ESTHER CHARLESWORTH / IFTEKHAR AHMED
    Through 12 case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the USA, this book focuses on the housing reconstruction process after an earthquake, tsunami, cyclone, flood or fire. Design of post-disaster housing is not simply replacing the destroyed house but, as these case studies highlight, a means to not only build a safer house but also a more resilient...

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  • HUMANITARIAN ARCHITECTURE
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    HUMANITARIAN ARCHITECTURE
    ESTHER CHARLESWORTH
    Never has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding post-disaster sites and cities. In 2011, more people were displaced by natural disasters (42 million) than by wars and armed conflicts. And yet the number of architects equipped to deal with rebuilding the aftermath of these floods, fires, earthquake, typhoons and t...

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  • ARCHITECTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS
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    ARCHITECTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS
    ESTHER CHARLESWORTH
    From the targeted demolition of Mostar’s Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction. But what political and aesthetic criteria should guide us in the rebuilding of cities devastated by war and natural calamities?The title of this timely and inspiring...

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  • CITY EDGE
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    CITY EDGE
    ESTHER CHARLESWORTH
    This series of essays outlines a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians have had in reshaping cities. These insights provide a pragmatic assessment of the challenges and constraints posed by changing patterns of urban growth in a broad spectrum of urban e...

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