In the Skin of the City : Spatial Transformation in Luanda / / António Tomás, De Gruyter eBound Foundation, De Gruyter eBound Foundation

• Autore: Tomás António
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, , [2025]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Africa / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
• Soggetto non controllato: Skin; Urban transformation; Borders; Frontier; Urban expansion; Contingency; Singularity; António Ole; tracing associations; Luanda Angola; colonialism; Portugal. colonialism; Estado Novo; colonial authority; Portuguese Empire; recalibration; Roque Santeiro marketplace; informal economy; decentering; urban grid; public transport; fragmentation; urban composition; city center; housing stock; Luanda Sul; squatters
• Persona (resp. second.): De Gruyter eBound FoundationDe Gruyter eBound Foundation
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps And Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Frontier Within -- Part I. Formation -- Part II. Stasis -- Part III. Fragmentation -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• ISBN: 1-4780-9446-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996662859003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno