Name: In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Theory in Forms) (en Inglés)
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Author: António Tomás
ISBN: 9781478015529

portada In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Theory in Forms) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke University Press Books

Autor

António Tomás

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781478015529

In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Theory in Forms) (en Inglés)

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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, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the 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 rights 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, Tomás offers new ways to understand the logic of urbanization in cities across the global South.