In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda Toms Antnio
In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda Toms Antnio With In the Skin of the City, Antnio Toms traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation's capital as well…
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In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda Toms Antnio
With In the Skin of the City, Antnio Toms 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. 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. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Toms shows how the city's physical and social boundaries--its skin--constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless.
In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process
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