(2015-09) The Waterfront of Les Cayes

Government of Haiti, Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) • 2015 • 11 pages

Summary — Rose-May Guignard of the CIAT on the waterfront of Les Cayes, presented at the September 2015 national workshop on Haiti's coastline and its land, economic and environmental stakes. It treats the seafront of a departmental capital as an urban planning object rather than as a coastal one.

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Key Findings

Treats a departmental capital's seafront as urban fabric and contested property, not only as an ecological edge.
Presented to the national coastal workshop of 8 September 2015, which framed the coast around land, economy and environmental threat together.
Authored by the CIAT's urban planning lead, placing it with the institution's city-scale work.
One of roughly a dozen papers from that workshop surviving in the archive.

Full Description

Les Cayes is the capital of the Sud department and one of the Haitian cities whose form is set by its relationship to the sea. This CIAT presentation, given at the Marriott in Port-au-Prince on 8 September 2015 to the national workshop 'le littoral en Haïti: enjeux fonciers et économiques, menaces environnementales', looks at the city's waterfront specifically. The framing of the workshop matters for reading it: the coast is treated as a place where land tenure, economic use and environmental threat meet, so a seafront is not only an ecological edge but a contested property and a piece of urban fabric. Rose-May Guignard was the CIAT's urban planning lead, and this belongs with the institution's city-scale work rather than with its coastal-management material. It is one of about a dozen papers from that single workshop preserved in the archive.

Geography

Keywords

front de mer, littoral urbain, Les Cayes, aménagement urbain, enjeux fonciers, érosion côtière, CIAT

Entities

CIAT, Rose-May Guignard, Les Cayes

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Le Front de Mer de la Ville des Cayes Rose-May Guignard Atelier le littoral en Haïti: enjeux fonciers et économiques, menaces environnementales Port-au-Prince, Marriott, 8 septembre 2015 1 2 3 Embouchures / drainage / sedimentation Habitat Précaires dans zones à risques Erosion Cotières 4 Ouvrages hydro par privé, enrochement, récupération de terres “privées” Latrines sur la mer  pollution écosystème marin Maison sur la mer érosion Port commercial, décharge sauvage sur la côte 5 Le front de mer de la ville des Cayes: Etats des Lieux 6 Reconquérir le littoral urbain 7 8 Fort L’ilet: Enrochement AVANT APRES 9 Proposition pour les secteurs 1-3 300 m Promenade – bois “boardwalk” port petits bateaux Enrochement, récupérer zone pour boulevard, espèces natifs; Port cabotage Parking wharf Ile a Vache, espace jeux/plage/mer Place Bolivar, Bay Club, Promenade 10 Merci 11