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Reconstruction with resilience capacity: The historic city centre of Constitucion site of the 2010 earthquake and tsunami disaster Reconstruir con capacidad de resiliencia: El casco histórico de la ciudad de Constitución y el sitio del desastre del terrem
Fecha
2015Registro en:
07188358 07181299
Autor
Gatica, Yasna del Carmen Contreras
Benítez, Maricel Beltrán
Institución
Resumen
© 2014, Instituto de la Vivienda. All rights reserved.Constitucion was one of the cities worst affected by the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. Some of the houses located in the historic quarter of this city were damaged and destroyed and its social cohesion was fractured after the relocation of victims, particularly those from the La Poza district. Four years after the disaster, change has been slow and reconstruction deadlines have been questioned. The rebuilding of the historic center has been possible thanks to individual private initiatives by residents, trade restructuration and —to a lesser extent— Governmental interventions through the improvement and repair of dwellings and the restoration of the coastal area. Most of the reconstruction process has focused on the construction of new housing units in the area outside the historic quarter. This paper discusses the scope of the process, the main changes in the urban structure and the value of property. The underlying hypothesis is th