Neal Peirce writes that an 'international architectural emergency' should be declared in Cuba where great urban spaces with distinguished buildings are in danger of being lost.
"[F]ew of us are aware that Havana is one of the urban treasures of the planet. In all, it has about 1,700 architecturally distinguished castles and forts, homes and churches, theaters and palaces, ranging from the earliest Spanish colonial styles of the 1500s and 1600s to some of the most adventuresome earlier 20th century designs.New Urbanist architect Andres Duany, himself a native Cuban, argues that Havana offers such masses of intact, distinguished structures that its urban quality exceeds any Latin American metropolis and also any U.S. city south of Washington."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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