Modern Movement Migrations: Architecture in Angola and Mozambique (1948-1975)

Magalhães, Ana Patrícia

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“…The history of modernist urban fantasies in Luanda dates back to the last few decades of colonial occupation (Buire, 2022). Heralded by architectural historians as one of the key locations where an 'African generation' (Fernandes, 2002) of white architects and planners experimented with a 'tropical modern' style (Magalhães and Gonçalves, 2009), the largest and most important city in what was then called 'Portuguese Africa' saw the development of various attempts to change society by designing and building a new kind of city. In 1942, for instance, Étienne de Groër and FIGURE 6 The 'new centralities' (sources: base image from earth.google.com; © 2021 Maxar Technologies; map produced by the authors) David Moreira da Silva followed Ebenezer Howard and the principles of the garden city movement to elaborate a master plan that proposed the construction of five satellite cities to decongest and rationalize the urbanization process (see da Fonte, 2012: 121).…”

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BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda

Cardoso,

Chen,

Ernstson

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article we portray and unpack the fabric of urban expansion in contemporary Luanda. In doing so, we examine interdependencies and complementarities between the organization of oil extraction off the coast of Angola, the emergence of particular modalities of modernist city planning for the expansion of its capital city, and the proliferation of cement blocks in the making of new urban forms throughout its burgeoning peripheries. By showing how urban development has unfolded through the interconnected realization of multiple kinds of systematizing blocks—namely oil blocks, city blocks and cement blocks—we analyse key material components in the production of new markets and urban spaces in the Angolan capital. By tracing forms of capitalism and modularity in the making of contemporary Luanda, we develop the concept of blocos urbanism to draw attention to modes of standardization and the production of legibility in contemporary processes of urbanization. Through this study, we aim to contribute to the conceptual apparatus for deciphering our global urban condition.

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Section: -City Blocks and The Regularities Of Urban Development In Lu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda

Cardoso,

Chen,

Ernstson

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Hypochondria as a form factor: The role of colonial anxieties as shapers of buildings and urban spaces in British Africa

Galli

2021

Planning Perspectives

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The paper explores the role played by hypochondria, defined as the preoccupation with fears of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms, in the definition of buildings and urban spaces throughout the history of British presence in the tropics, with a special regard to the African continent. From the medical and hygiene experts to the army engineers and the establishment of Tropical Architecture the relationship with the climatic and health conditions of the tropical belt has triggered fears and anxieties that have often prevented the definition of solutions. This paper shows how the scientific attitude that has characterized the exploration and settlement of tropical areas has not been a steady process but rather a complex mix of fears, false truths, wrong beliefs and slow improvements.

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Modern Movement Migrations: Architecture in Angola and Mozambique (1948-1975)

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BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda

BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda

Hypochondria as a form factor: The role of colonial anxieties as shapers of buildings and urban spaces in British Africa

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