Antonio Tomas

In the Skin of the City

Spatial Transformation in Luanda

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Produktbeschreibung

Antonio Tomas 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.

Produktdetails

• Theory in Forms
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018155
• ISBN-10: 1478018151
• Artikelnr.: 62548731

Autorenporträt

António Tomás is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg and author of Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist.

Inhaltsangabe

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