Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries

Description

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis of key issues in the history of urban planning and discussing the key challenges confronting contemporary urban planning in these countries. The book argues that urban planning is a non-neutral and non-value free kind of public action and, therefore, ideology, planning theories, urban models and the ideological role urban planning has played are some of the key issues addressed. For that reason, the practice of Urban Planning is also seen as the outcome of a complex interrelationship between structure and agency, with the role of key planers being examined in some of the chapters. The findings and insights presented by the contributing authors confirm previous research on urban planning in the colonial and postcolonial periods in Lusophone African countries and at the same time break fresh ground and offer additional insights as new evidence has been collected from archives and in fieldwork carried out by a new generation of researchers. In addition, it outlines possible directions for future research. Cover Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 1 Introduction Part I Colonial Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries 2 Colonial Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries: A Comparison with Other Colonial Planning Cultures 3 The City under the First Republic in the Former Portuguese Africa 4 Empire, Image and Power During the Estado Novo Period: Colonial Urban Planning in Angola and Mozambique 5 The Plano de Urbanização da Cidade de Luandaby Étienne de Groër and David Moreira daSilva (1941–1943) 6 Modern Colonial: The Urban-Architectural Laboratory of Luanda 7 The Prenda District in Luanda: Building on Top of the Colonial City 8The Growth of Lourenço Marques at the Turn o fthe Nineteenth Century: Urbanization, Environment and Sanitation 9 A ‘High Degree of Civilization’: Colonial Urbanism and the ‘Civilizing Mission’ in a Southern Mozambique District Part II Postcolonial Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries 10 Postcolonial Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries: Spatial Planning Systems in Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique 11 Urban Planning in Angola in the Postcolonial Period: From Theory to Practice – A Critical Perspective 12 Questioning the Urban Form: Maputo and Luanda 13 Postcolonial Transformation of the City of Maputo :Its Urban Form as the Result of Physical Planning and Urban Self-Organization 14 Mozambique’s Rescaled Dualistic Urbanisation: Dealing with Historical Legacies of Imperialism and Resistance 15 The Re-emergence of Urban Renewal in Maputo: The Importance and Scale of the Phenomenon in the Neoliberal Context 16 Naming the Urban in Twentieth-Century Mozambique: Towards Spatial Histories of Aspiration and Violence 17 Prepaid Electricity in Maputo, Mozambique: Challenges for African Urban Planning Index