Un assemblement des projets et évaluations de reconstruction post crises faites par Groupe URD dans les environnements urbains.
The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.
Report which identifies 7 drivers and 6 challenges relevant to shaping innovation and competitiveness that are shared across the built environment industry and our cities more widely.
Study looking at new developments in Thames Gateway, Ashford, the South Midlands, and the M11 corridor which could significantly increase the costs of flooding.
Four case studies of post-disaster housing reconstruction projects (in Colombia, El Salvador, and Turkey) highlighting the different ways in which users can be and were involved in decision-making, project management, and implementing the projects.
Report for the Mississippi Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, Renewal - Affordable Housing Subcommittee on affordable-housing policy and implementation options that have potential application for long-term reconstruction decisions in the wake of natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina.
Set of resources for improving the earthquake resistance of adobe brick structures drawing on research and application in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Pakistan
Photo-panoramas from 13 households at different income levels and 3 schools in Mozambique, South Africa and Uganda.
Article suggesting that current approaches to ‘safe’ housing reconstruction usually do little to increase poor people’s livelihood resilience.
Focusing on settlement and shelter, this paper examines 4 areas: (i) safety, security, and livelihoods; (ii) how post-disaster settlement and shelter could have an improved connection with permanent housing and communities; (iii) fairness and equity; and (iv) connecting relief and development by tackling root causes of vulnerability.