Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Burlington : Ashgate, 2015.

Description:

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

Series:

Design and the built environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.
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).
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

ISBN:

9781472444875 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472444876 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781472444882 (ebook)
1472444884 (ebook)
9781472444899 (epub)
1472444892 (epub)

Subject:

City planning Africa, Portuguese-speaking.
Urbanization Africa, Portuguese-speaking.
Urban policy Africa, Portuguese-speaking.
Urbanisation Afrique lusophone.
Politique urbaine Afrique lusophone.
City planning.
Urban policy.
Urbanization.
Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Africa, Portuguese-speaking.

Added entries:

Silva, Carlos Nunes, editor.
Silva, Carlos Nunes. editor.
Design and the built environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295369
Call No.: BIB 241561
Status: Available