Mapping participatory planning in Havana: patchwork legacies for a strengthened local governance

IF 2 2区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Urbanization Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI:10.1177/09562478211032570

C. Ortiz, A. Vallejo, Jorge Peña, E. Morris, Joiselen Cazanave Macías, Dayané Proenza González

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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.

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绘制哈瓦那参与式规划图：加强地方治理的拼凑遗产

2019年，古巴批准了一部新的政治宪法，呼吁深化公民参与，以加强地方治理。新出现的权力下放进程和新行动者在城市发展中的作用为包容性规划开辟了新的可能性。尽管公民参与在全球南方和西方自由民主制度下得到了广泛记录，但哈瓦那等南方社会主义城市的参与性城市规划却没有受到太多审查。本文旨在绘制这种参与式规划举措的框架、轨迹和遗产。根据绘图讲习班和桌面研究，我们发现哈瓦那的参与性举措在空间上是分散的、零星的、城市一级缺乏的，在社区一级孤立地发生。我们认为，在哈瓦那建立持续的参与性城市规划做法需要决策者向外和向上扩展从现有举措中吸取的经验教训，以促进全市范围的参与性规划战略。

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期刊介绍： Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high-income nations. Most of the papers it publishes are written by authors from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Papers may be submitted in French, Spanish or Portuguese, as well as English - and if accepted for publication, the journal arranges for their translation into English. The journal is also unusual in the proportion of its papers that are written by practitioners.