Région des Palmes Urban Design Workshop: Context Document
Summary: This context document prepared for an international urban-design workshop frames planning issues in the Région des Palmes. It examines the relationship between metropolitan periphery, coastal urbanity and mountain rurality.
Key Findings
- Frames the Région des Palmes as a metropolitan, coastal and mountain planning territory.
- Documents urbanization pressures along transport corridors.
- Links agriculture, environmental risk and settlement patterns.
- Supports territorial design work by CIAT, CMRP and Les Ateliers.
Full Description
The report supplies background for design teams working on the Région des Palmes and its links to Port-au-Prince. It treats urbanization along RN2, coastal and mountain settlement patterns, agriculture, environmental vulnerability and territorial governance questions.
How to cite
Interministerial Committee for Territorial Planning (CIAT); Communauté des Municipalités de la Région des Palmes (CMRP); Les Ateliers, 2015, Région des Palmes Urban Design Workshop: Context Document, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/ciat-ateliers-2015-region-palmes-document-contexte