In the Skin of the City
Spatial Transformation in Luanda
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Theory in Forms;
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 15 July 2022
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781478015529 |
ISBN10: | 1478015527 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 288 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 522 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 25 illustrations |
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Short description:
António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, by showing how it emerges out of the continual redefinition and negotiation of its physical and social boundaries.
Long description:
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, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the 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 rights 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, Tomás offers new ways to understand the logic of urbanization in cities across the global South.
"Tomás's analysis is a generous mélange of ethnographic and historical study of Luanda's changing urban condition over time, offering palimpsests of a changing city. . . . [The Skin of the City] is at its best when it focuses on the interconnections between various urban processes, inscribed locally, as well as the borders that enable such urban remaking."
Table of Contents:
Maps and Figures ix
Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The Frontier Within 1
Part I. Formation
1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29
2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59
Part II. Stasis
3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91
4. A City Decentered 119
Part III. Fragmentation
5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147
6. The Urban Yet to Come 176
Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204
Glossary 215
Notes 219
Bibliography 241
Index 261
Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The Frontier Within 1
Part I. Formation
1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29
2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59
Part II. Stasis
3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91
4. A City Decentered 119
Part III. Fragmentation
5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147
6. The Urban Yet to Come 176
Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204
Glossary 215
Notes 219
Bibliography 241
Index 261