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In the skin of the city : spatial transformation in Luanda / António Tomás.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory in formsPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022Description: xii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478018155
  • 9781478015529
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76096732 TOM 23 020030
Contents:
Formation -- Un-building History to Build the Present -- Ordering Urban Expansion -- Stasis -- A Place to Dwell in Times of Change -- A City Decentered -- Fragmentation -- Reversing (Urban) Composition -- The Urban Yet to Come -- Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris?
Summary: "With In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city's physical and social boundaries-its skin-constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and native, slave owner and slave, formal and informal, and the powerful and powerless. He focuses on Luanda's "asphalt frontier"-the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it-and the ways squatters are central to Luanda's historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain the right to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating Luanda's divisions and the sociopolitical forces that shape them. By illustrating how Luanda emerges out of the continual redefinition of its skin, Tomaas offers new ways to understand the logic of urbanization in cities across the global South"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formation -- Un-building History to Build the Present -- Ordering Urban Expansion -- Stasis -- A Place to Dwell in Times of Change -- A City Decentered -- Fragmentation -- Reversing (Urban) Composition -- The Urban Yet to Come -- Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris?

"With In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city's physical and social boundaries-its skin-constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and native, slave owner and slave, formal and informal, and the powerful and powerless. He focuses on Luanda's "asphalt frontier"-the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it-and the ways squatters are central to Luanda's historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain the right to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating Luanda's divisions and the sociopolitical forces that shape them. By illustrating how Luanda emerges out of the continual redefinition of its skin, Tomaas offers new ways to understand the logic of urbanization in cities across the global South"--

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