Entre crónicas y críticas. Los barrios de indigentes de La Habana vistos por la prensa. 1930-1959

Authors

  • María Victoria Zardoya Loureda Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría, CUJAE http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2692-7467

Keywords:

Barrios de indigentes, La Habana, Comisión Nacional de la Vivienda/ shantytowns, Havana, National Housing Commission

Abstract

RESUMEN: A finales de los años veinte del pasado siglo surgieron en La Habana asentamientos informales, conocidos entonces como barrios de indigentes, que resultaron la única alternativa habitacional para los más pobres. Mientras la ciudad crecía con nuevas urbanizaciones y edificios altos que aumentaron las opciones de vivienda para la llamada clase media, se acrecentó el desamparo de los más necesitados. Este texto es el resultado de una investigación de carácter histórico que reconstruye el proceso de conformación y consolidación de los barrios de indigentes capitalinos y centra su atención en las reseñas sobre el tema publicadas en la prensa habanera entre 1930 y 1959, lo que además de documentar cómo se establecieron esos asentamientos, refleja las diferentes posturas asumidas frente a ellos.

PALABRAS CLAVE Barrios de indigentes, La Habana, Comisión Nacional de la Vivienda

Between Chronicles and Critics. Shantytowns in Havana Seen by the Press. 1930-1959

ABSTRACT: In Havana, in the late 1920s, appeared a number of improvised settlements, lacking infrastructure, known at the time as barrios de indigentes (shantytowns). They constituted the only housing option for the poor. While the city was expanding with new land being urbanized and buildings growing higher, increasing housing alternatives for the middle class, impoverished citizens were left destitute. This article is the result of an investigation of a historical nature, that reconstructs the process of conformation and consolidation of the neighbourhoods of homeless people in the capital, and focuses its attention on the reviews on the subject published in the Havana press between 1930 and 1959, which in addition to documenting how these settlements were established, reflects the different positions assumed towards them.

KEYWORDS: shantytowns, Havana, National Housing Commission

Author Biography

María Victoria Zardoya Loureda, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría, CUJAE

María Victoria Zardoya Loureda

Arquitecta, Doctora en Ciencias Técnicas, Profesora Titular, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría, CUJAE, La Habana, Cuba.

E-mail: mvzardoya@arquitectura.cujae.edu.cu

ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2692-7467

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Published

2020-02-21

How to Cite

Zardoya Loureda, M. V. (2020). Entre crónicas y críticas. Los barrios de indigentes de La Habana vistos por la prensa. 1930-1959. Revista científica De Arquitectura Y Urbanismo, 41(1), 06–20. Retrieved from https://rau.cujae.edu.cu/index.php/revistaau/article/view/563

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Vol. 41 No. 1 (2020): Arquitectura y Urbanismo 1-2020

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