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In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda

Tomás, António. 2022. In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-sk...

António Tomás António Tomás

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Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda

Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda. Africa, 90(3), 509–528. https://doi.org...

Claudia Gastrow Claudia Gastrow

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Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola

Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1...

Claudia Gastrow Claudia Gastrow

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Luanda is not Paris: a situated epistemology of Southern Urbanism Theory

This project for a book titled In the skin of the city: Luanda, or the dialectics of spatial transformation examines the process of historic formation and transformation of Luanda, the capital city of Angola.

António Tomás António Tomás

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Everyday Authoritarianism: Urban Life and Politics in Luanda, Angola

This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.

Claudia Gastrow Claudia Gastrow
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