Invoking the Right to the City in a critical re-reading of the transformation of Maputo’s urban margins over the past fifty years
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20 mai 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pupo.19835
- isbn: 9782840163572
- eisbn: 9782840164500
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Isabel Raposo et al., « Invoking the Right to the City in a critical re-reading of the transformation of Maputo’s urban margins over the past fifty years », Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, ID : 10.4000/books.pupo.19835
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Introduction In this chapter we invoke Lefebvre’s notion of the ‘right to the city’, as a tool in a critical rereading of the (self) production and transformation of the urban margins of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, over the five decades since the first edition of his seminal work, Le droit à la ville. We revisit the urban and housing policies, the dwelling practices and everyday reactions to the bureaucratic and mercantile rationale, arising from the processes of political and economic tr...