Urban planning in Lusophone African countries / [edited] by Carlos Nunes Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silva, Carlos Nunes, editor.

Series:

Design and the built environment series

Design and the built environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Africa, Portuguese-speaking.

City planning.

Urbanization--Africa, Portuguese-speaking.

Urbanization.

Urban policy--Africa, Portuguese-speaking.

Urban policy.

Portuguese-speaking Africa.

Physical Description:

xiv, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Burlington : Ashgate, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction / Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Colonial urban planning in Lusophone African countries : a comparison with other colonial planning cultures / Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

The city under the first republic in the former Portuguese Africa / Ana Vaz Milheiro (ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

Empire, image and power during the Estado Novo period

colonial urban planning in Angola and Mozambique / Ana Tostões (IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal) & Jessica Bonito (IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

The Plano de urbanização da cidade de Luanda by Étienne de Groër and David Moreira da Silva (1941-1943) / Teresa Marat-Mendes (ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) & Mafalda Teixeira de Sampayo (ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

Modern colonial : the urban-architectural laboratory of Luanda / Inês Lima Rodrigues (Universidade Politécnica de Barcelona, Spain)

The Prenda district in Luanda : building on top of the colonial city / Ana Vaz Milheiro (ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) & Filipa Fiza (ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

The growth of Lourenço Marques at the turn of the 19th century : urbanization, environment and sanitation / Ana Cristina Roque (Tropical Research Institute, Portugal).

"High degree of civilization"

colonial urbanism and "civilizing mission" in a southern Mozambique district / Pedro Manuel Sobral Pombo (ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

Postcolonial urban planning in Lusophone African countries : spatial planning systems in Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique / Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Urban planning in Angola in the postcolonial period

from theory to practice : a critical perspective / Carlos Miguel Guimarães, Sofia Valente & Frederico Costa Leite á (Iperforma/Soapro, Porto, Portugal, Luanda, Angola)

Questioning the urban form : Maputo and Luanda / Fabio Vanin (IUAV, University of Venice, Italy ; Latitude, platform for urban research and design, Italy)

Post-colonial transformation of the city of Maputo : its urban form as the result of physical planning and urban self-organization / David Leite Viana (Escola Superior Gallaecia & University of Porto, Portugal)

Mozambique's rescaled dualistic urbanization : dealing with historical legacies of imperialism and resistance / Céline F. Verøssimo (Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal & University College London, United Kingdom)

The re-emergence of urban renewal in Maputo : importance and scale of the phenomenon in the neoliberal context / Sølvia Branco Jorge (Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal; African Studies Center, IUL, Portugal)

Naming the urban in twentieth-century Mozambique : towards spatial histories of aspiration and violence / Tiago Castela (University of Coimbra, Portugal) & Maria Paula Meneses (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Prepaid electricity in Maputo, Mozambique : challenges for African urban planning / Idalina Baptista (University of Oxford, United Kingdom).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.

ISBN:

9781472444875

1472444876

9781472444882

1472444884

9781472444899

1472444892

OCLC:

908934690