Beyond the walled city: colonial exclusion in Havana

Once one of the most important port cities in the New World, Havana was a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities.

This book tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed and explores the relationship between colonial empire and urbanisation in the Americas.

Guadalupe García shows how the policing of urban life and public space by imperial authorities from the 16th century onward was explicitly centred on politics of racial exclusion and social control.