The Waterfront of Les Cayes
- 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.
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.
How to cite
Government of Haiti; Interministerial Committee for Territorial Planning (CIAT), 2015, The Waterfront of Les Cayes, http://ciat.gouv.ht/sites/default/files/articles/files/7_Le%20Front%20de%20Mer%20de%20la%20Ville%20des%20Cayes%20-%20Rose-May%20Guignard%20-%20CIAT.pdf