LEADER 03542nam 2200709zu 450 001 996662859003316 005 20260105164339.0 010 $a1-4780-9446-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478094463 035 $a(CKB)39323781800041 035 $a(DE-B1597)BR1322389 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478094463 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939323781800041 100 $a20250619|2022uuuu || | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 200 00$aIn the Skin of the City $eSpatial Transformation in Luanda /$fAnto?nio Toma?s, De Gruyter eBound Foundation, De Gruyter eBound Foundation 210 1$aDurham$cDuke University Press, $d[2025] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tMaps And Figures -- $tAbbreviations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Frontier Within -- $tPart I. Formation -- $tPart II. Stasis -- $tPart III. Fragmentation -- $tGlossary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWith In the Skin of the City, Anto?nio Toma?s 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, Toma?s 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, Toma?s offers new ways to understand the logic of urbanization in cities across the global South. 606 $aHISTORY / Africa / General$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban$2bisacsh 610 0$aSkin 610 0$aUrban transformation 610 0$aBorders 610 0$aFrontier 610 0$aUrban expansion 610 0$aContingency 610 0$aSingularity 610 0$aAnto?nio Ole 610 0$atracing associations 610 0$aLuanda Angola 610 0$acolonialism 610 0$aPortugal. colonialism 610 0$aEstado Novo 610 0$acolonial authority 610 0$aPortuguese Empire 610 0$arecalibration 610 0$aRoque Santeiro marketplace 610 0$ainformal economy 610 0$adecentering 610 0$aurban grid 610 0$apublic transport 610 0$afragmentation 610 0$aurban composition 610 0$acity center 610 0$ahousing stock 610 0$aLuanda Sul 610 0$asquatters 615 7$aHISTORY / Africa / General. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. 700 $aToma?s$b Anto?nio$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $a, De Gruyter eBound Foundation$b De Gruyter eBound Foundation$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996662859003316 997 $aUNISA