" The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our" compartmentalised world".
The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of …

A burgeoning literature looks into the processes and actors involved in the adoption and
emulation of best practices and models of urban policy and development across the globe …

The urban studies literature has extensively analysed the modernist, developmental or
neoliberal drivers of urban restructuring in the global South, but has largely overlooked the …

Abstract Transnational corporations (TNCs) in Africa play significant roles in controlling
utilities, privately appropriating common resources, and planning urban space. On the one …

Satellite settlements are recently booming around major African cities, often as
comprehensively planned and self-contained new towns. These large-scale projects are …

With In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda,
Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the …

This article explores public participation and its impact on urban structures in Southern
Africa. Often, public participation stands in opposition to existing legislation and prevailing …

Kilamba, the first of the new centralities in Angola, is increasingly visible in recent urban
scholarship about Luanda, further establishing it as the symbol of both this “new” post-war …

Urban research is becoming more representative of multifaceted urban conditions, but even
a more inclusive urban lens often gravitates towards the metropolis. In this paper, I introduce …

Ten years after the end of nearly three decades of civil war, in 2012 then Angolan President
José Eduardo dos Santos inaugurated the first phase of the redevelopment of the Bay of …