Introduction: Disease, Discomfort, Development and Disaster: Reconsidering Tropical Architecture and Urbanism, Dr. Deborah van der Plaat (The University of Queensland, Australia), Professor Vandana Baweja, PhD (University of Florida, USA), Professor Tom Avermaete, PhD (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Part 1: DISEASE
Section introduction by Professor Warwick Anderson (The University of Sydney, Australia)
1. Addressing Disease, Development and Culture in The Colonial Urban Kampong: Health, Native Housing and Urban Planning in Semarang, Java, 1900-1930, Dr. Joost Coté (The University of Queensland, Australia)
2. "Crise du logement": Migration and the Architectural Prophylactics of Hygiene and Housing in Postwar Tunisia, Morocco, Professor Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi (Albion College, USA)
3. Medical Infrastructure Histories of Anglophone West Africa, Professor Ola Uduku, PhD (University of Liverpool, UK)
PART 2: DISCOMFORT
Section Introduction by Russell McGregor (James Cook University, Australia)
4. Race and the Tropical Home: The houses of Dr. and Mrs. Franzier J. Payton (1936) and Isaac Edmands (1936), Miami, Professor Vandana Baweja, PhD (University of Florida, USA)
5. The ABC Hotels in the former Belgian Congo: An Evolution of The Tropical Bungalow, Dalia Perziani (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
6. U.S. Domesticated Tropics: Architectural Visions and Comfort in Southern California, Hawai'i and Florida, Dr. Henry Knight Lozano (University of Exeter, UK)
PART 3: DEVELOPMENT
Section introduction: Professor David Williams, PhD (Queen Mary University, UK)
7. The Synthesis of Tropical Urbanism: Integrating Urban Knowledge in the UN Technical Assistance Programme, Professor Tom Avermaete, PhD (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
8. Architectural Experiments in Remote Self-Help Housing for Aboriginal People in the 1970s, Dr. Tim O'Rourke (The University of Queensland, Australia)
9. Faith by 1978: Architecture, Advocacy and Displacement in Mindanao, Philippines, Will Davis (University of California, USA)
PART 4: DISASTER
Section introduction by Professor Jason von Meding, Phd (University of Florida, USA)
10. Earthquake: The 'Contact Zone' of Moroccan Agadir's Development Aid after the 1960 Earthquake, Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
11. Resilience, Psychological Security, and Disaster in Tropical Australia in the Interwar Years, Dr. Deborah van der Plaat (The University of Queensland, Australia)
12. An Alluvial Archipelago: Islands of Forced Labour and Pervasive Disaster in Louisiana's Delta Country, Emeritus Professor William (Bill) Taylor, PhD (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
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