Ortiz, C;
Vallejo, A;
Peña, J;
Morris, E;
Cazanave Macías, J;
Proenza González, D;
(2021)
Mapping participatory planning in Havana: patchwork legacies for a strengthened local governance.
Environment and Urbanization
10.1177/09562478211032570.
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Abstract
In 2019, Cuba approved a new political constitution that calls for deepening citizen participation to strengthen local governance. The emerging decentralization processes and the role of new actors in urban development open new possibilities for inclusive planning. While citizen participation is widely documented in the global South and under Western liberal democracy regimes, participatory urban planning in the context of Southern socialist cities such as Havana has been less scrutinized. This paper aims at mapping the framings, trajectories and legacies of such participatory planning initiatives. Based on mapping workshops and desktop research, we find that participatory initiatives within Havana are spatially dispersed, sporadic, lacking at the city level, and occurring in isolation at the neighbourhood level. We argue that establishing sustained participatory urban planning practices in Havana requires decision makers to scale outwards and upwards the lessons learned from existing initiatives to foster a city-wide participatory planning strategy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mapping participatory planning in Havana: patchwork legacies for a strengthened local governance |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/09562478211032570 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F09562478211032570 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 by International Institute for Environment and Development. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of the Americas |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132660 |
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