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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Design and the built environment series.
Other Authors: Silva, Carlos Nunes (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Ashgate, 2015.
Series:Design and the built environment series.
Subjects:
City planning > Africa, Portuguese-speaking.
Urbanization > Africa, Portuguese-speaking.
Urban policy > Africa, Portuguese-speaking.
City planning.
Urban policy.
Urbanization.
Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Physical Description:xiv, 243 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
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).