Learning from the Marché Hyppolite Port-au-prince, Haiti

........................................................................................................... 2 Statement of originality .................................................................................. 3 Acknowledgements ....................................................................................... 4 Content ............................................................................................................ 5 Tables, figures and boxes............................................................................... 7 1 THE CONTEXT: HAITI AND RESEARCH METHOD........................................11 1.1 An urban disaster in Haiti ...................................................................... 11 1.2 Eighteen months after the earthquake: severe critiques... and a success story .................................................................................................. 12 1.3 The research question ........................................................................... 17 1.4 Aims and Objectives ............................................................................. 18 1.4.1 Research aim................................................................................... 18 1.4.2 Research objectives ....................................................................... 18 1.5 Relevance and significance of the study........................................... 18 1.6 Methodology.......................................................................................... 19 1.7 Research scope and limitations........................................................... 21 1.7.1 Scope ............................................................................................... 21 1.7.2 Limitations ........................................................................................ 21 1.8 Ethical considerations ........................................................................... 22 1.9 Organisation of the present dissertation ............................................. 23 2 THE THEORY: APPROACHES TO ASSESSING URBAN LIVELIHOODS AND URBAN PLACES ................................................................................................25 2.1 Two context-appropriate conceptual approaches to assess the Marché Hyppolite’s reconstruction ............................................................ 25 2.1.1 A method to assess the functional space: the sustainable livelihood approach ................................................................................... 25 2.1.2 A method to assess the meaningful urban place: an urban place approach ......................................................................................... 27 2.2 Urban environments & reconstruction: a livelihood approach........ 29 2.2.1 The sustainable livelihood approach in urban environments ... 29 2.2.2 Rebuilding livelihood whilst rebuilding environments ................. 33 2.3 Urban environments & reconstruction: an urban place approach 37 2.3.1 A people-centred urban place framework ................................ 38 2.3.2 Rebuilding significant urban environments and rebuilding sociospatial ties 42