In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda

by António Tomás

Book Overview

With In the Skin of the City, Ant nio Tom s traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tom s shows how the city's physical and social boundaries--its skin--constitute porous and shifting interfaces between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018151
• ISBN13: 9781478018155
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"