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In the skin of the city : spatial transformation in Luanda / António Tomás.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomás, António, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Theory in forms.
- Theory in forms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--Angola--Luanda (Luanda).
- Urbanization.
- Urbanization--Angola--Luanda (Luanda)--History.
- Urban renewal--Angola--Luanda (Luanda).
- Urban renewal.
- Ethnology--Angola--Luanda (Luanda).
- Ethnology.
- Sociology, Urban--Angola--Luanda (Luanda).
- Sociology, Urban.
- Luanda (Luanda, Angola)--History.
- Luanda (Luanda, Angola).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- 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.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781478022763
- 1478022760
- OCLC:
- 1309092498
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