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Cities and crises: urban fragility, humanitarian action and the challenges of reconstruction in cities

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One day conference hosted by Groupe URD on 26 April 2011. The conference focuses on fragility in built and urban environments in the context of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and on the challenges of humanitarian and reconstruction operations in these environments.

These issues has been explored via the following topics:

Urban fragility and vulnerability The challenges and specific characteristics of humanitarian aid in cities The reconstruction process in urban environments

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