7. The City in Midair

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Beyond the Ruins 1
5. PART I. Mapping Havana: Citizenship and the City
6. 1. Visits to a Non-Place: Havana and Its Representation(s) 15
7. 2. The Bitter Trinquennium and the Dystopian City: Autopsy of a Utopia 31
8. 3. Barbacoas: Havana’s New Inward Frontier 53
9. 4. The ‘‘Slums’’ of Havana 73
10. 5. Havana and Its Landscapes: A Vision for Future Reconstruction of Cuban Cities 106
11. 6. The Illegible City: Havana after the Messiah 119
12. Havana: A Photo-Essay 135
13. PART II. Havana’s Shifting Margins
14. 7. The City in Midair 149
15. 8. Made in Havana City: Rap Music, Space, and Racial Politics 173
16. 9. Urban Performance Pieces in Fragmented Form: A Reading of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Antonio José Ponte 187
17. 10. Topographies of Cosmonauts in Havana: Proyecto Vostok and Insausti’s Existen 209
18. 11. Touring Havana in the Work of Ronaldo Menéndez 229
19. PART III. Coda
20. 12. La Habana: City and Archive 249
21. 13. Bitter Daiquiris: A Crystal Chronicle 270
22. Glossary 287
23. References 297
24. Contributors 315
25. Index 319