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Photo by Remi Kaupp Photo by Haitian Childrens Home Abitare Magazine |
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~KREYOL SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE~ |
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From the rural farming compounds to the bustling metropolises of Port Au Prince and Cap Hatien, Haiti’s human settlements incorporate a range of large grain economic, social, and architectural patterns, from the French & Spanish Colonial gridiron city plan, to the more topographically determined landscape and layouts of the agricultural villages and urban Bidonvilles (informal settlements). |
Colonial
planning was centered on natural and human resource exploitation.
Conversely, a program of refurbishing the Bidonvilles could
provide a prospect for the emergence of intense urban as well as
rural landscape restoration, an opportunity to humanely harness and
leverage the social genius and energy of Haitians in the cities. |
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