Unnatural Disaster
Columbia University'se Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) Columbia University, Morningside Campus Low Library Rotunda (1 train to 116th Street), New York, NY, United StatesUnnatural Disaster: Infrastructure in Puerto Rico before, during, and after Hurricane Maria In January of 2018, four months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, Puerto Rico’s Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced a plan to privatize the US territory’s publicly owned power utility (PREPA). This action—exposing infrastructure at the convergence of colonialism, finance, and 150 mile-per-hour winds—came as