Angolan Cities: Urban (Re)segregation?

Colonial Angolan cities were built according to the racial, economic and social stratii cation of the time. At er independence, ideologies of social egalitarianism, together with massive migration towards urban centres, profoundly changed this spatial organisation, creating socially and economically mixed areas in the cities. h is spatial blending lasted until very recently, when new, closed districts began to be built and
when the old ‘rich’ bairros began to be bought up and renovated by upper-class families. h e new urban segregation, which is a tendency documented, for example, in the former apartheid cities or in the cities of other developing countries, is essentially the result of new social and economic dif erentiations.