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"We Do Not Wait for the Government": An Evaluation of a Disaster Rebuilding Program in Kathmandu Valley

2020-09-07T10:29:05-05:00

Five years ago, a massive earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks rocked the core of Nepal. Recovery from these quakes has been a long and difficult process. This thesis will explore findings from a qualitative evaluation of Lumanti Support Group for Shelter, an NGO in Kathmandu, Nepal that implemented a residential reconstruction program in four peri-urban communities in Kathmandu Valley. These findings are a culmination of 26 semi-structured interviews and document analysis. This research highlights the processes of reconstruction and the forms of resistance that occurred through disaster governance.

[News Script: Pompidou, Everest climb, and Viet Cong]

2019-01-24T05:11:42-06:00

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a meeting between British Prime Minister Edward Heat and French president Goerges Pompidou, two climbers who quit their attempt to scale Mount Everest, and a Viet Cong attack in South Vietnam.

[News Script: Spiro Agnew's travels]

2018-08-02T16:59:52-05:00

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism

2018-07-30T12:01:24-05:00

This article considers an alternative formulation of urban planning generated by three-plus decades of economic and governmental liberalization.