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Mapping a Disfigured Port-au-Prince

BU TODAY -- An interdisciplinary team from BU, comprising urban planning professors from Metropolitan College, as well as professors and researchers from BU’s Center for Remote Sensing and the CAS department of geography and environment, have been working for more than a year with Haitian colleagues on a sustainable redevelopment project in Haiti. Students scrambled to compile as much relevant and accurate geographic data as possible about Haiti’s earthquake-scarred landscape and to produce digital, and more important, hard-copy maps. Read More