Guantanamo.- With conversation activities, urban tests, project analysis, municipal forums, at the provincial and national level, specialists from the Institute of Territorial Planning and Urbanism of the Guantánamo Province will develop the project “Urban October”, during 31 days to promote a safe and sustainable future for the inhabitants.
Noraida Longas Chuman, deputy delegate of the Institute of Territorial Planning and Urbanism (INOTU) in the territory, reported that students from the José Marcelino Grajales Industrial Polytechnic Institute, staff of the entity and retirees will participate in the activities, in synergy with the Cuban Association of Engineers and Architects (UNAICC, in Spanish).
Due to the complex panorama of certain areas of the territory, the visit and action of workers to neighborhoods with degraded, precarious and informal indicators are other objectives of the institution to reduce the rates of precariousness in these places of transformation.
Urban October is a global initiative promoted by UN-Habitat that hosts Cuba to promote reflection and actions, based on inventiveness and collaboration, around the challenges and opportunities of sustainable urban development.
In a world where cities play an important role, the Urban October project contributes to the comprehensive analysis of the challenges and to the mobilization of key actors such as local governments, entities, the non-state sector and civil society to build more habitable, equitable and climate change-resistant cities.
