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Negotiating Housing Recovery In Post-Earthquake Urban Kutch, India, Anuradha Mukherji
Negotiating Housing Recovery In Post-Earthquake Urban Kutch, India, Anuradha Mukherji
Anuradha Mukherji
The 2001 Kutch earthquake, in Gujarat state in western India, destroyed 230,000 houses and damaged another 1 million. In Bhuj and Bachhau, urban centers close to the epicenter of the earthquake, single-family houses, squatter settlements, and high-rise apartments were destroyed, and public and private housing reconstruction programs were introduced to help communities rebuild their houses. However, five years after the disaster, in spite of interventions by local and global, public and private entities, many communities in both towns continued to struggle towards housing recovery. This dissertation examines why some communities were able to rebuild and improve their overall housing conditions …