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The interview was originally published by the MIT News Office Photo: United Nations Development Programme 3 Questions: Lawrence Vale on rebuilding Haiti An MIT urban design expert explains why devastated cities are nearly always rebuilt — but why Haiti faces special challenges to reconstruction. Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office January 20, 2010 The human and economic [...]

By now most of the world knows of the catastrophic earthquake that has battered Haiti. I first learnt about it while listening to Radio Isla, a Puerto Rican station, on my mobile phone. The journalist, who patched together the breaking news with audio from CNN en Español, highlighted the fact that a tsunami wave might [...]