The city district Old Havana that is on the World Heritage List because of its Spanish colonial architecture is undergoing a restoration project of great size. The project is run by the Office of the City Historian, which in Cuban proportions, is independent the state. Instead the Office is self-financed by the profits out of the 1,5 million annual tourists that visit the already, with its 63000 inhabitants, overcrowded Old Havana.  Alongside the restoration of the deteriorated buildings, the goal is to make it without resettling the current residents. Instead the aim is to involve the citizens in the planning processes to make them participate, which is not a well-tried approach in Cuban planning. This report, based on a field study in Old Havana, investigates what methods for participative planning are used by the Office and to what extent the residents see that they have the possibility to take part. / SIDA - Minor Field Study

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:37:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela do Valle de Carvalho Prudente.pdf: 5832100 bytes, checksum: 69912647fbdd79ee296404ce797bfdbd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-03 / This dissertation presents a comparative perspective of the historical trajectories of constitution of the patrimonialization of cultural goods as a specific field in the set of the cultural politics in Cuba and Brazil. The research gains the contours of case study when it describes the trajectories of patrimonialization of the historical centers of Old Havana and Pelourinho. The central argument is that even if the politics of international organisms as UNESCO end up generating forms of similar conception of management, the local context can in such a way print specific connotations in the trajectories as well as in the management forms. The Old Havana case calls the attention to the social function given to the patrimonialized goods in the communist regimen present in the country for more than half century. / Esta dissertação apresenta uma perspectiva comparativa das trajetórias históricas de constituição da patrimonialização de bens culturais como um campo específico no conjunto das políticas culturais de Cuba e do Brasil. A pesquisa ganha os contornos de estudo de caso quando descreve as trajetórias de patrimonialização dos centros históricos de Havana Velha e do Pelourinho. O argumento central é que, embora as políticas de organismos internacionais, como a UNESCO, terminem por gerar formas de concepção de gestão semelhantes, o contexto local pode imprimir conotações específicas tanto nas trajetórias quanto nas formas de gestão. Chama a atenção, no caso de Havana Velha, a função social dada aos bens patrimonializados pelo regime comunista em vigência no país por mais de meio século.