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- Title
ESTUDIOS DE VULNERABILIDAD SOBRE EL FONDO HABITACIONAL.
- Authors
VALDIVIA CRUZ, CAMILO
- Abstract
The studies about the vulnerability of the houses are an important tool in the taking of decisions for the local authorities regarding to the intervention of the patrimony and the decreasing of the physical vulnerability of this. This article is about a study made for one of the most damaged locality by tropical cyclones in the last twenty five years in the central region of Cuba. The use of a Geographical Information System, the definition of the most dangerous winds because of the hurricanes and the different levels of vulnerability at the urban scale and for the houses, stablish some priorities regarding to the constructive rehabilitation of the houses of this zone.
- Subjects
CUBA; HURRICANES &; architecture; HURRICANES; HOUSING -- Conservation &; restoration; BUILDING foundations; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; TROPICAL cyclones
- Publication
Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2008, Vol 29, Issue 2/3, p68
- ISSN
1815-5898
- Publication type
Article