Mismatched Boundaries
PROJECTIONS 6 the MIT STUDENT JOURNAL OF PLANNING ■ FALL 2007 MISMATCHED BOUNDARIES MANY THANKS TO Kathy Hoag, Janice O’Brien, Alice Twohig, Sandy Wellford, and Karen Yegian; and Shannon McKay, Gretchen Weismann, and Pamela Siska for their help with the final editing. (c) 2007 MIT DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES + PLANNING All rights reserved. No part of this journal may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means without prior written permission from the publisher. Text set: Univers 57 Condensed, Univers 47 Condensed. Digitally published using Adobe InDesign. Printed and bound in the United States of America by Sherman Printing, Canton, MA. Cover image: Thomas More’s Utopia More, Thomas. (Source: The common-wealth of Vtopia [electronic resource] Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, London, 1639. Series: Early English books online.), outside cover; Shanghai, China (Source: Marissa Cheng) inside cover. TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 EDITORIAL 6 Dr. Nora Libertun de Duren 1 CONTINGENCY PLANNING + THE BORDER SPACE 14 Dr. Sergio Peña 2 LAND TITLING IN STARR COUNTRY COLONIAS ALONG THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER : PLANNING + STABILITY ISSUES 36 Dr. Cecilia Giusti, Jane E. Larson, Dr. Peter M. Ward, Flavio A M de Souza, Marlynn May 3 ACROSS THE RIVER : URBAN BORDERLAND DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI + THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC : THE CASE OF DAJABÓN + OUANAMINTHE 56 Dr. Lena Poschet 4 CITIES ACROSS NATIONS 74 Els Verbakel 5 REMNANTS OF SYMBOLS : THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN DESTRUCTION + RECONSTRUCTION IN MOSTAR 98 Allison H. Stewart 6 STRATEGIC PLANNING + THE METROPOLITAN AREA IN BUENOS AIRES : GUIDELINES TO UNRAVEL THE THREEFOLD BOUNDARY ISSUE 118 Dr.
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