Gardens Of Havana Cuba
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The Urban Gardens Of Havana
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Author : Ola Plonska
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-03-15
The Urban Gardens Of Havana written by Ola Plonska and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Social Science categories.
This book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener. The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and controlled by Cuban state institutions, they also offer possibilities of crafting life in resistance. The experiences the authors narrate are not ‘thick descriptions,’ linked to larger political issues, but rather rhizomatic observations that highlight the relationships between humans and non-humans within the nature-culture debate. Using these experiences, the authors argue that ‘the political’ reaches beyond the affairs of state and governance and should be seen as an all-encompassing part of life. The authors thereby invite the social sciences to focus on the microscopic and the day-to-day to illuminate how the political affairs of lives can be imagined differently.
Gardens Of Havana Cuba
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Author : Laine Cunningham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-04-22
Gardens Of Havana Cuba written by Laine Cunningham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-22 with History categories.
Havana's tropical climate makes it a gardening paradise. Many homes in neighborhoods like Vedado and Miramar are fronted with flowers and shrubs that provide year-round visual interest. Blooming beauties include the shaving brush tree, bloodflower, peacock flower, cat's tail, and the bush clock vine. The jasmine called the mariposa flower, or the butterfly flower, is a popular choice as the national flower. Take a private tour in Gardens of Havana, Cuba.
Verge Gardens Of Havana Cuba
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Author : Laine Cunningham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-05-09
Verge Gardens Of Havana Cuba written by Laine Cunningham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-09 with History categories.
In the space between the street and the sidewalk, Havana's residents tend guava and avocado trees as well as blooming plants. Enormous aloe plants and ancient saguaro tower over the sidewalks, turning a casual stroll into a walk through a fantastical space. Verge gardens also highlight the different palm trees as well as unique magnolias, dragon trees and epiphytes. Enjoy the tapestry created by the Verge Gardens of Havana, Cuba.
Agriculture In The City
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Author : María Caridad Cruz
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 2003
Agriculture In The City written by María Caridad Cruz and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Technology & Engineering categories.
During the 1990s, several national economies saw their urban food markets collapse. Like Zambia, Mozambique, and Armenia, Cuba responded to this crisis with a food program that included support to urban agriculture: farming in the city. As a result, food prices are increasing, free markets have been reinstated, production cooperatives have been linked with markets, land has been redistributed, and areas under export crops have been converted to domestic food crops. The Cuban government is now calling upon its cities to become more self-reliant for food OCo a focus that is dramatically modifying the landscape, lifestyle, and food supply of Havana residents."
Flowering Plants From Cuban Gardens
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Author : Woman's Club of Havana. Garden Section
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Flowering Plants From Cuban Gardens written by Woman's Club of Havana. Garden Section and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Botany categories.
Havana Manana A Guide To Cuba And The Cubans
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Author : Consuelo Hermer
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-04-26
Havana Manana A Guide To Cuba And The Cubans written by Consuelo Hermer and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-26 with Travel categories.
Most travel books take you far, but usually not far enough. Too often they include too much historical material, too little about the facts of life. Knowledge of any city, after all, is written in terms of its people, its food, its customs. Take Havana, now. There have been no books about Havana that make its people real to us. If Americans consider the Cubans “touched,” they, in their turn, sum us up as Americanos locos. But the Cubans, at least, admire the stuff Americans are made of, even though it defies their analysis. It’s time for visitors to return the compliment, to be more open-minded and less jingoistic. The geniality and gracious dignity of life in Havana and the mercurial charm of its inhabitants deserve understanding and appreciation. There have been no books about Havana that guide tourists through the complicated maze of Cuban etiquette. Warm-hearted and easy-going though he may be, your true Cuban resents any transgression of the rules of his social code. The bad impressions left by Americans on a spree cry to heaven for correction. There have been no books about Havana that show tourists how to get more than their money’s worth out of shopping, eating, sightseeing and night-clubbing, how to spend intelligently, how to save wisely, how to have fun on even the most limited budget. These pages try to demonstrate that there is much more than rum, rumba and revolution in Cuba; to indicate the pattern of behavior that furthers social success in this unpredictable but always enchanting country; to turn the spotlight on Cuban customs and the Latin way of looking at life. Understanding all this will mean keener appreciation of your experiences there, richer memories and a sympathy for Havana that make the place unforgettably warm and colorful.
Nature Culture And Race In Colonial Cuba
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Author : Lee Sessions
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Nature Culture And Race In Colonial Cuba written by Lee Sessions and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with History categories.
A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island’s natural history and culture to redefine racial identity and reassert authority. These practices occurred in the face of challenges to their political power from Cubans of mixed race and as Cuba’s dependence on sugar led to ecological and economic precarity. Lee Sessions uses close visual analysis to investigate how white elites wielded power by manipulating material culture, placing in conversation for the first time the natural history museums, botanical gardens, and thousands of paintings, drawings, and prints produced in and about Cuba from 1820 to 1860. This important and novel book explores how groups used material culture to imagine their own future at a moment when racial and political dynamics were changing rapidly, while facing an ecological disaster of unimaginable scale.
Havana
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Author : Susan Anne Mansel Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-01
Havana written by Susan Anne Mansel Fitzgerald and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-01 with Architecture categories.
Following the crisis of the Special Period, Cuba promoted urban agriculture throughout its towns and cities to address food sovereignty and security. Through the adoption of state recommended design strategies, these gardens have become places of social and economic exchange throughout Cuba. This book maps the lived experiences surrounding three urban farms in Havana to construct a deeper understanding about the everyday life of this city. Using narratives and drawings, this research uncovers these sites as places where education, intimacy, entrepreneurism, wellbeing, and culture are interwoven alongside food production. Henri Lefebvre’s latent work on rhythmanalysis is used as a research method to capture the everyday beats particular to Havana surrounding these sites. This book maps the many ways in which these spaces shift power away from the state to become places that are co-created by the community to serve as a crucial hinge point between the ongoing collapse of the city and its future wellbeing.
Farming Cuba
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Author : Carey Clouse
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Farming Cuba written by Carey Clouse and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Architecture categories.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba found itself solely responsible for feeding a nation that had grown dependent on imports and trade subsidies. With fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides disappearing overnight, citizens began growing their own organic produce anywhere they could find space— on rooftops, balconies, vacant lots, and even school playgrounds. By 1998 there were more than 8,000 urban farms in Havana producing nearly half of the country's vegetables. What began as a grassroots initiative had, in less than a decade, grown into the largest sustainable agriculture initiative ever undertaken, making Cuba the world leader in urban farming. Featuring a wealth of rarely seen material and intimate portraits of the environment, Farming Cuba details the innovative design strategies and explores the social, political, and environmental factors that helped shape this pioneering urban farming program.
Cuban Intersections Of Literary And Urban Spaces
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Author : Carlos Riobó
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Cuban Intersections Of Literary And Urban Spaces written by Carlos Riobó and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of essays on theories of space in relation to Havana.