“Three weeks after the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey, the country had already started to rebuild.

“One of the things that you really want to do is have a thoughtful recovery. A deliberative recovery against all instincts to go fast,” Divya Chandrasekhar, associate professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, says.

Especially after a major earthquake.”

Interested in learning more? Listen here to hear more from Dr. Chandrasekhar, who was recently feature on NPR/BUR’s On Point program talking about the Turkey earthquake earlier in the year.