Luanda’s New Frontier The Peri-Urban Growth in Angola
Angola currently faces an almost impossible mission of healing its territory and people from the wounds left behind by nearly three decades of violent conflict. Since peace was first installed …
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In order to address such challenges a general reconstruction strategy, which particularly emphasizes the need to mitigate the lack of housing and related social problems, has been put in place. …
Read moreDesigning ‘Dream Houses’ in the fringe of development: occupan perception of low-cost housing in Luanda’s urban periphery
This paper explores issues associated with perceptions of low-cost housing in Luanda, which despite being considered one of the fastest developing and more prospective growing cities in Africa, is struggling …
Read moreCo-producing urban knowledge in Angola and Mozambique: towards meeting SDG 11
The need to make cities in Africa ‘more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, as encapsulated in the stand-alone urban goal 11 adopted as part of the 17 United Nations (UN) …
Read moreHousing the middle classness in Luanda (1)
On 11 July 2011, President José Eduardo dos Santos opened the first phase of the new satellite city of Kilamba. Made up of a series of green, blue, yellow and …
Read moreNovas Centralidades de Luanda
O presente trabalho disserta sobre As Novas Centralidades na Área Metropolitana de Luanda: A Cidade do Sequele como Estudo de Caso. Na intenção de perceber o contributo da centralidade na …
Read moreO Papel dos Governos Locais Na Implementação Dos Objectivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável
A Development Workshop Angola, em colaboração com Centro de Cidades Africanas – CCA da Universidade Cape Town (Africa do Sul) e Centro de Análise de Políticas Públicas – CAPP da …
Read moreProjeto De Investigação Africa Habitat
O Projeto “Africa Habitat, da sustentabilidade do habitat à qualidade do habitar nas margens urbanas de Luanda e Maputo”, está sediado no CIAUD-FAUL, é conduzido por uma equipa do Gestual, …
Read moreGrounding stats and the SDGs in co-produced local data
City planners and local governments are increasingly expected to deliver on sustainable development policies such as Agenda 2030, but in many cases the data needed to assess and track progress …
Read moreLuandas_Slums_Poverty_and_Gentrification
Slum redevelopment is occurring at a rapid pace in many African cities. This paper examines the urban development of contemporary Luanda, the capital of Angola. Central to this examination is …
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