Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital
Appearance
Formation | 1987[1] |
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Type | Urban planning[1] |
Region served | Havana, Cuba |
The Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital (Group for the Integral Development of Havana) is an urban planning effort in Havana, Cuba, established in 1987.[1] According to one scholar, it was "created to develop new ways of dealing with the problems created by three decades of neglect" of the city by the state.[2]
History
[edit]Participants have included architect Mario Coyula Cowley, among others. In 1988 the group began organizing "Talleres de Transformacion Integral del Barrio" (neighborhood transformation workshops) which devised plans for local development.[3] The workshops involved local ward "consejos populares" (popular councils), and sometimes also advisors from Cuban government agencies or international entities.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c (in Spanish) Article about the group on encaribe.org[usurped]
- ^ Charles Rutheiser (2000). "Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City". In Gary Bridge; Sophie Watson (eds.). A Companion to the City. Blackwell. ISBN 9781782688150.
- ^ Miren Uriarte (2002), Cuba, Social Policy at a Crossroads: Maintaining Priorities, Transforming Practice (PDF), Boston: Oxfam America
- ^ Armando Chaguaceda (2011). "The Promise Besieged: Participation and Autonomy in Cuba". NACLA Report on the Americas. 44 (4: Cuba). North American Congress on Latin America.
- ^ Isabelle Anguelovski (2014). Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52569-5.
Bibliography
[edit]- "Ideas avanzadas para un desarrollo urbano sostenible y participativo en La Habana (Cuba)" [Progressive ideas for sustainable and participatory urban development in Havana (Cuba)], Ciudades para un Futuro más Sostenible: Buenas Prácticas (in Spanish), Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, 1996
- Mario Coyula (2000), "Havana Always: Preserving the Soul of a City", DRCLAS News, Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Coyula; et al. (2002), Hacia un nuevo tipo de comunidad en la Habana: los Talleres de Transformación Integral del Barrio (in Spanish)