Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital explained

Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital
Leader Title:	President
Formation:	1987
Type:	Urban planning
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. 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.^[1]

History

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. The workshops involved local ward "consejos populares" (popular councils), and sometimes also advisors from Cuban government agencies or international entities.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Gary Bridge . Sophie Watson . A Companion to the City. 2000. Blackwell . 9781782688150 . Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City . Charles Rutheiser.
2. The Promise Besieged: Participation and Autonomy in Cuba . Armando Chaguaceda . 2011 . NACLA Report on the Americas . 44 . 4: Cuba . .
3. Book: Isabelle Anguelovski. Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. 2014. MIT Press. 978-0-262-52569-5.