Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 33: The old centre of Port-au-Prince, memory and reconstruction, and the order of 2 September 2010 declaring 200 hectares to be of public utility
Summary: The Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 33, of 1 May 2013. The issue covers The old center of Port-au-Prince, memory and reconstruction, and the order of 2 September 2010 declaring 200 hectares to be of public utility. The Bulletin is the publication of Haiti's national heritage institute, which documents the country's built heritage monument by monument, its state of conservation and the work carried out on it. 7 pages.
Key Findings
- The issue examines the reconstruction of old central Port-au-Prince after the 12 January 2010 earthquake and the role of memory in that process.
- It critiques the 2 September 2010 presidential order declaring 200 hectares of the historic center to be of public utility because it ignored the historical dimension, focused on expropriation and lacked an articulated project.
- The bulletin reports later legal steps published in June 2012 that delimited the old center and subjected it to special rules to protect architectural, urban and landscape heritage.
- ISPAN launched an inventory and seal campaign to identify and protect remarkable cultural properties as demolitions began.
- The inventory initially stamped hundreds of buildings as historic, but looting and dismantling forced an update of the October 2010 inventory in March 2011.
- The chronicle reports shoring work on the Coidavid Battery at the Citadelle Henry as a first phase of stabilizing a tower at risk of collapse.
Full Description
The Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 33, of 1 May 2013. The issue covers The old center of Port-au-Prince, memory and reconstruction, and the order of 2 September 2010 declaring 200 hectares to be of public utility. The Bulletin is the publication of Haiti's national heritage institute, which documents the country's built heritage monument by monument, its state of conservation and the work carried out on it. 7 pages.
How to cite
Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN), 2013, Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 33: The old centre of Port-au-Prince, memory and reconstruction, and the order of 2 September 2010 declaring 200 hectares to be of public utility, https://www.dloc.com/AA00065766/00022