Puerto Rico: tra Caribe e Sud America, prospettive di sviluppo del patrimonio infrastrutturale e produttivo in una gestione pianificata dell’emergenza post uragano
The paper investigates and documents the raise and the decay of Sugarcane Mills a
productive territorial system, a settlement system, composed by architectural warehouse,
harbors and railway infrastructures in Puerto Rico. The Sugarcane Mills characterized the
identity, the history and the economy of the island for more than 100 years together with their
architectural elements and the workers housing settlements (formal and informal). By 1940,
there were 44 mills in operation in Puerto Rico. They were – and still are – dislocated along