Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital

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Grupo para el Desarrollo
Integral de la Capital
Formation1987[1]
TypeUrban 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]

  1. ^ a b c (in Spanish) Article about the group on encaribe.org[usurped]
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Miren Uriarte (2002), Cuba, Social Policy at a Crossroads: Maintaining Priorities, Transforming Practice (PDF), Boston: Oxfam America
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Isabelle Anguelovski (2014). Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52569-5.

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