Architects and post-disaster housing : a comparative study in South India /

This book examines the different roles of architects in rural post-disaster housing and their impact on the degree of success of the projects from villagers' perspective. It is based around the building process of three case studies affected by the tsunami of 2004 in rural South India. It ident...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tauber, Gertrud (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript, 2014.
Colección:Architekturen (Bielefeld, Germany) ; Volume 24.
Temas:
Housing > India, South.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
Housing
South India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Terminology
  • Preamble
  • Introduction
  • Locating the Field
  • Existing Literature on the Role of Architects in Designing Post-Disaster Housing
  • Building Cultures
  • Research Method
  • Local Governments, NGOs and the Villages
  • Summary of the Three Case Studies
  • 1: The Project Management Consultant
  • 2: The Draftswoman
  • 3: The Surveyor-Anthropologist
  • Understanding the Results
  • International Voices: Comparison of the Results of the Three Case Studies
  • Conclusions and Recommendations for NGOs, Architects and Educational Institutions
  • Appendices
  • Glossary
  • List of Figures
  • List of Pictures
  • List of Tables
  • Bibliograph.

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