Sheltering the Urban Poor:  Lessons and Strategies of the Mexico City and San Salvador Earthquakes.

dc.creator	Cuny, Frederick C.
dc.date.accessioned	2017-03-25T17:40:15Z
dc.date.available	2017-03-25T17:40:15Z
dc.date.created	1987
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/159925
dc.description	(85) Disaster Housing Case Studies. (399)	en
dc.description	The digital Cuny Archive was made available in part through funding assistance from USAID.	en
dc.description.abstract	A large urban earthquake can create sudden, large demands for shelter for the urban poor. Two recent earthquakes - one in Mexico City and the other in San Salvador illustrate the problems that urban planners may face in future urban disasters. Certain groups of disaster victims are extremely difficult to reach with conventional assistance and normal post-earthquake reconstruction strategies. These recent experiences are forcing planners to re-examine post-disaster shelter strategies and to develop new programs and approaches to provide suitable interim shelter and. replacement housing. These events have also forced a re—examination of the temporary shelter strategies which have became widely accepted in the last decade.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	INTERTECT	en
dc.format.medium	Electronic	en
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.title	Sheltering the Urban Poor: Lessons and Strategies of the Mexico City and San Salvador Earthquakes.	en
dc.type.genre	Other	en
dc.type.material	Text	en
dc.format.digitalOrigin	reformatted digital	en