Archive image from page 335 of The Cuba review (1907-1931). The Cuba review cubareview16muns Year: 1907-1931 ( 16 THE CUBA REVIEW CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION IN CUBA By Hamilton M. Wright. Public improvements in Cuba are today more closely patterned after those of the United States of America than those of any other Latin-American country. Indeed, Havana is more modern than any Latin-x\merican city north of Eio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires. Cuba has a very active public works department, the head of which is the Hon. Jose R. Villalon, Minister of Public Works and a member of President Menocal's cabin
Archive image from page 335 of The Cuba review (1907-1931). The Cuba review cubareview16muns Year: 1907-1931 ( 16 THE CUBA REVIEW CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION IN CUBA By Hamilton M. Wright. Public improvements in Cuba are today more closely patterned after those of the United States of America than those of any other Latin-American country. Indeed, Havana is more modern than any Latin-x\merican city north of Eio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires. Cuba has a very active public works department, the head of which is the Hon. Jose R. Villalon, Minister of Public Works and a member of President Menocal's cabinet. The concrete construction in Havana is marvelous, but as a matter of fact the concrete work throughout the republic has only started and a tremendous task faces the Cuban Government before its ambitious projects are finally accomplished. There are already 160 steel and concrete business buildings in Havana. These run up as high as seven stories, and include bank buildings, business blocks cf office buildings, and ware- houses. One of the new steel and concrete buildings in Havana, with the ground on which it stands, represents an investment of $4,000,000. There are more than 195 miles of new streets in Havana. Fine concrete curbs and sidewalks have been built. The streets are paved with granite blocks or are surfaced with concrete. Havana has a boulevard system that is one of the world's great show places, and concrete is the basis of its construction. The superb Prado, or double boulevard, enclosing a strip of park in its center, radiates from the heart of the city, at Central Park, to the jVIalecon, or sea drive, that skirts the blue Caribbean. The Malecon drive turns the curve at the entrance of Havana harbor, opposite the famed Morro Castle and follows the ocean there for several miles. A great concrete escarpement lines the side of the Malecon next to the sea. The side next to the city is Uned with beautiful homes that face seaward. It is planned to extend the Malecon
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