Background Information /Books / References Compiled by Architect Dr. Patricia Green
2023 August 28
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Blackwood, Jenna. “Landscape architects are critical in urban planning.” The Gleaner, 2023 April 26. To my knowledge, there is no LA or other landscape design professional employed to any government agency. TPDCo used to have a LA on staff and the UDC used to have an entire Landscape Department led by an LA.
Gleaner Reporter. “Downtown’s Breezy Castle Sports Centre gets critical upgrades.” The Gleaner, 2021 January 29. Downtown Kingston’s only true green space, the Breezy Castle Sports Centre, will be a lot greener – and even safer – for the community members and their children who use its facilities from now on.
Green, Patricia. “Climate change and disaster resilience architecture hope.” The Gleaner, 2021 November 7. As a small island, Jamaica has had many natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, floods, fires, etc. Architectural solutions have evolved over the years to teach the world how to mitigate some of these negative effects.
Kingston Creative. 2023. Focus on Downtown Kingston, as besides being the nation’s historic capital city, it is also the heart of its creative production. Its “old town” possesses a rich cultural heritage in terms of architecture, heritage sites, museums, galleries and a waterfront that borders the 7th largest natural harbour in the world.
Martin, Mark. “Pocket parks are key to greening of Kingston.” The Gleaner,2021December14. One of the causes of this perpetual problem is the lack of understanding of the profession of landscape architecture and the work of landscape architects. The fact is, this is not a recognised profession in Jamaica.
Twyman, Mary-Anne. “We must design for Jamaica, our environment and climate.” The Gleaner. 2022August4. This leaves little room to provide trees to cool the environment, and certainly can never counterbalance the destruction caused by a housing development without meaningful tree cover.
Urban Development Corporation. “Our History by Decades.” 2019. The First Decade 1968-1978: Reclamation of land for creation of beaches in Ocho Rios and Montego Bay as well as creation of commercial development lands on Downtown Kingston Waterfront.
BOOKS / REFERENCES
Buisseret, David. The Fortifications of Kingston 1655-1914. Bolivar Press, 1971.
Clarke, Colin G. Kingston Jamaica: Urban Growth and Social Change 1692-1962. University of California Press, 1975.
Green, Patricia E. (Ed.). Monuments and Sites Jamaica. International Council on Monuments and Sites, 1996.
Green, Patricia Elaine and Carrington Morgan, Stacy-Ann Robinson. “Regenerating Downtown Kingston, Jamaica: A Process of Heritage and Culture with Local Governance and Community Engagement.” Paper delivered at Caribbean Urban Forum -CUF2013 [R]Evolution, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago W. I., 2013 March.
Green, Patricia Elaine. “Creole and vernacular architecture: embryonic syncretism in Caribbean Cultural Landscape.“ The Journal of Architecture, 2022 March 31, 10.1080/13602365.2022.2047761.
Green, Patricia Elaine. “From Jamaica, A Decolonization Cry for Housing Justice and Architecture Conservation.” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 54, no. 3, 2022, pp. 330-338, DOI:10.1080/10714839.2022.2118025
Grenier, Robert and David Nutley, Ian Cochran (Eds.). Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk: Managing natural and human impacts. ICOMOS Special Edition, 2006 April.
Jaffe, Rivke and Lucy Evans. “Imagining Infrastructure in Urban Jamaica.” GeoHumanities, vol. 8,no.1, 2022, pp. 17-32, DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1925575
Khalissa, Ikhlef. “Culture in Small Island Developing States.” In Herman van Hooff (Ed.), World Heritage in the Caribbean: Culture and Development, 11, pp. 17-22, 2014 August 31, UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Osei, Philip. “Learning from the Experience of VISION 2020 in Kingston, Jamaica.” In Diamond, John and Joyce Liddle, Alan Southern, Philip Osei (Eds.). Urban Regeneration Management: International Perspectives, pp. 65-91, Routledge, 2009.
Ranston, Jackie. Belisario. Sketches of Character:. A historical biography of a Jamaican artist. Mill Press, 2008.
Storer, Dorothy P. Familiar Trees and Cultivated Plants of Jamaica: A Traveller’s Guide to some of the common trees, shrubs, vines and crop plants. Institute of Jamaica / Macmillian & Co. Ltd, 1964.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Development Plan (2019)
Downtown Kingston Redevelopment (Market and Commercial District) Implementation Plan –
Urban Development Corporation (UDC), 2012, Upated 2018
Sponsored by: local and international private sector developers, foreign Governments and local
and international agencies
Green Plan for Kingston
HR&A Study (2023)
KSAMC Sustainable Development Plan – Kingston and St Andrew Parish
Mapping Poverty Indicators: Consumption Based Poverty in Jamaica, Planning Institute of
Jamaica.
Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers, Goods, Works, Non-Consulting and Consulting Services, The World Bank, July 2016
Soil Investigation Report for the Proposed Northern Car Park Development, Kingston Jamaica
Prepared for UDC July 18, 2014
Vision 2030 National Development Plan, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ)
Sponsored by: Government of Jamaica, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), International Development Agency (CIDA)
ADDITIONAL REPORTS
Development Committee (KSA PDC)
Sponsored by: World Bank’s City Alliance Programme
The Town and Country Planning (Kingston, St Andrew, Pedro Cays) Provisional Development Order, 2017 National Environment and Planning Agency
Sponsored by: The Town and Country Planning Authority
The Preparatory Survey or Kingston Sewerage Development Project
Japan International Cooporation Agency (JICA), Water Commission (NWC)
Downtown Kingston Redevelopment (Market and Commercial District) Implementation Plan – Urban Development Corporation (UDC)
Sponsored by: local and international private sector developers, foreign governments and local and international agencies
Building Code (2020) – allows for high rises with no accompanying green space