Tropical French Theory
Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11947711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Kutz (0000-0002-7810-6329, Instituto de Historia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1003-1019 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.70037 |
| OpenAlex | W7118445576 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean‐Pierre Garnier and Spanish architect Eusebio Azcue, at the Instituto de Planificación Física in Havana, proposed to introduce an entirely novel approach to the design of the capital that was directly inspired by Lefebvre’s book. Though these Lefebvrian references ultimately disappeared, many of the book’s principles continued to resonate in the Plan ultimately promulgated. Told through the voice of one of the last living members of the group, Jean‐Pierre Garnier, alongside archival documents and published interviews, the article explains how The Right to the City imprinted itself on the lives of this group of planners in Havana, and the overlooked significance of the Plan’s legacy for global histories and theories of urban space
Capital (architecture · Plan (archaeology · Planner · Urban planning · Urban theory · Urbanism · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Cuban History and Society · Global Development and Urbanization
Putting Science in Its Place
Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
The Uses of Space in Early Modern History
Everyday Life in the Modern World
From the Door of His Tent
Visions of Power in Cuba
Networks of knowledge, or spaces of circulation? The birth of British cartography in colonial south Asia in the late eighteenth century
Mind Over Matter
Beyond Boundary Spanning
Translations, translocations, and pluralism
Introduction
Conjectures on an absence
Introduction
The Spaces of Knowledge
A minimum of urbanism and a maximum of ruralism
Global and world cities
Spatial equality in Cuba
Three truth-spots
State and territory in post revolutionary Cuba
Relocating Modern Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |