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Author Tomás, António, 1973- author.

Title In the skin of the city : spatial transformation in Luanda / António Tomás
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps
Series Theory in forms
Theory in forms.
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2022)
Subject Urbanization -- Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Urbanization -- Angola -- Luanda (Luanda) -- History
Urban renewal -- Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Ethnology -- Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Sociology, Urban -- Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
HISTORY / Africa / South / General.
Ethnology
Sociology, Urban
Urban renewal
Urbanization
SUBJECT Luanda (Luanda, Angola) -- History
Subject Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021043751
ISBN 1478022760
9781478022763