{"pk":3316,"title":"Housing Policy, Neighborhood Development, and Civic Participation in Cuba: The Social Microbrigades of Santa Clara","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The article will introduce the reader to the Cuban situation concerning neighborhood development, civic participation, and housing policy. Its intention is to demonstrate a concept of government-introduced self-help housing in Cuba called \nmicrobrigades\n, using case study analysis of Santa Clara, Cuba. Comparing Cuban microbrigades with other self-help housing projects from different countries highlights the particularities of this extraordinary concept.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Cuba, Housing, Urban Development, Participation, neighborhood development"},{"word":"Regional Sciences, Spatial Planning, Urban Development"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1st4z52s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Benedikt","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brester","name_suffix":"","institution":"Karlsruhe Institute of Technology","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-01-03T16:18:24Z","date_accepted":"2012-01-03T16:18:24Z","date_published":"2012-09-20T08:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3316/galley/2095/download/"}]}