INTI - International New Town Institute

Alamar Adalante!

ewout — 2017-07-11T15:47:25Z

Alamar is a satellite city 10 kilometers to the east of Havana built in the 70s by communist Micro Brigades. There are approximately 100,000 people living in identical concrete flats, surrounded by ample green space.
Outside of Cuba, Alamar is known worldwide for its state of the art organopónicos's: urban agriculture on the scale of plantations. Alamar is providing 95% of its fresh vegetables. Next to that, Alamar is the birth place of the Cuban hip-hop culture and has produced many (…)

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Partners

ewout — 2016-02-21T13:48:05Z

– TU Delft Department of Urbanism
– CUJAE, Polytechnic University José Antonio Echeverría Department of Architecture
– Officina del' Historiador
– Netherlands Consulate Havana.

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The New Town lecture series at the TU Delft, 2015-2016

ewout — 2016-02-21T13:44:41Z

The 2015-2016 edition of The New Town lecture series at the TU Delft is organised again in cooperation with Design as Politics (Prof. W. Vanstiphout) and Urbanism (Prof. Han Meyer). The topic of this year is Havana, a city at the cusp of enormous change. The communist government is gradually opening up its economic system, while the United States are expected to relax their boycott. This means that one of the most beautiful historic cities, with one of the most spectacular positions around a (…)

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Alamar, Havana (Cuba)

Sophie Rijnaard — 2016-02-17T10:30:26Z

Alamar is a satellite city, east of Havana, Cuba, with communist roots. Built in the 1970s, Alamar was part of the embodiment of the Revolution itself: a large-scale housing complex for Castro's workers. Several decades later, this revolutionary dream has shown not to be resistant against the ravages of time: Alamar's apartment blocks are in decay, the neighborhood is isolated from Havana's city center itself and suffers from a lack of identity and a monotonous cityscape. INTI came to (…)

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