New City, New Citizens?: A Lefebvrian Exploration of State-Led Housing and Political Identities in Luanda, Angola

Since its inauguration in 2011, the New City of Kilamba has become one of the most emblematic
examples of the Chinese-funded spectacle of reconstruction in post-war Angola. Its tabula rasa urban
paradigm has been widely criticised by housing experts in and out of Angola but little is known of its
reception by the general population in Luanda.