Analysis of socio-spatial dynamics in Nampula city

Coordinator
Alexandre Baia

Members
Adriano Biza, Alamba Napulula, Matilde Muocha

Country
Mozambique

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Looking at Nampula city, Mozambique’s third most important urban centre, this project explores contradictions and inequalities in the production of the urban space. Challenging current discourses that see the urban space as homogeneous, thus neglecting internal and external interaction, the study analyses the production and reproduction of elements associated to rural life in the urban space as a result of the socio-economic processes dominating in the urban space. Fieldwork and interviews will be complemented with an historical analysis of the migration process in order to understand the present morphology of the city.

Draft paper received