Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Old Havana has faced daunting economic, social, and political challenges, including most recently during the Special Period of the 1990s. These challenges have included addressing the needs of vulnerable populations, the precarity of the building stock, and sustainable economic development concerns, while maintaining a commitment to historic preservation and the Cuban political project. We argue that the Master Plan of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana was designed to address acute threats and lead to resilience in what may be considered a gold standard for redevelopment efforts. This paper presents Old Havana’s socioeconomic context and assesses its ability, through the Master Plan, to achieve equitable resilience. We argue that the successes of the Master Plan have led to new challenges and that renewed strategies are needed to support ongoing equitable resilience.
Authors: Maureen M. Donaghy, Tara Carr-Lemke
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3095411828