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  • New ‘Mapa dos Chapas’ public transport map for Maputo

    By Tavares Cebola, Zitamar News on 26 September 2016 Roads | Maputo News

    A new route map for Maputo’s privately-operated minibuses will be launched later this year.

  • Changing cityscape: Maputo

    By Beth Oppenheim-Chan on 15 August 2016 Planning, Urban Development | Maputo Feature

    Chinese investment is transforming Maputo. Will new infrastructure projects benefit all Mozambicans or just the wealthy?

  • Analysis: Time for Maputo to tackle traffic congestion

    By Tom Bowker on 28 January 2015 Roads | Maputo Feature, News

    In December last year, Maputo’s municipal bus company published a quite astounding statistic. Its annual results for 2013, published in daily newspaper Noticias, showed it had only managed to transport half the number of passengers around Mozambique’s capital city as it had in 2012. It blamed this primarily on increased traffic congestion, which it said … Continued

  • How Mozambique’s rebel fighters wooed an urban electorate

    By Tom Bowker on 22 December 2014 Elections, Urban politics | Maputo Feature, News, Story

    In October 2013, thousands of people took to the streets of Maputo, the Mozambican capital, in anti-government protests. At municipal elections the following month, which were boycotted by the traditional opposition party and former rebel army Renamo, a third party called the Mozambique Democratic Movement, or MDM, won 40% of the Maputo vote, giving the … Continued

  • Weekly urban news roundup: April 25, 2014

    By Gemma Solés on 26 April 2014 | Abuja, African Cities, Benghazi, Cairo, Cameroon, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Egypt, Johannesburg, Kenya, Kigali, Lagos, Libya, Maputo, Mozambique, Nairobi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Windhoek News

    Benghazi votes peacefully. Benghazi residents on April 19 voted to choose their municipal council in an atmosphere of hope and optimism about a better future. The chairman of election subcommittee, Abdel Wahab al-Feki, expressed his relief over the smooth flow of elections, which took place without any obstacles. –Magharebia. Small traders fear evictions in Kigali The city of … Continued

  • Weekly urban news roundup: March 17, 2014

    By Gemma Solés on 17 March 2014 | Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Bangui, Cameroon, Cape Town, Carthage, Côte d'Ivoire, Douala, Jinja, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, Luxor, Maputo News

    Johannesburg is Africa’s busiest city for twitter The top tweeting cities in Africa have been revealed in a new study that seeks to analyse the behaviour of Twitter users. According to a study by strategic communications agency Portland, SA and Egypt are the most active on Twitter, with peaks for the Egyptian uprisings and the … Continued

  • Call for papers: first Mozambique Urban Research Forum

    By Admin on 20 May 2016 Urban Development | African Cities, Maputo, Mozambique, Sub-Saharan Africa Call for papers, Conference

    The National Urban Forum (FUN) is a multilateral platform that aims to promote a debate and to support procedures relating to sustainable urban development at the country level.

  • Alternative conceptions of planning and their relevance for Sub-Saharan cities: case study of Maputo

    By Admin on 10 July 2014 Land, Planning, Urban Development | Maputo lecture

    This talk draws on long term research on urban physical development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and draws on engagement by the author with urban issues in Mozambique, and Maputo in particular. It argues for an approach to urban land rights, management and planning that is based on understanding of both a) the realpolitik of urban land in the region as well as b) the mental models and organizational practices of so-called ‘informal’ land access mechanisms.

  • ‘We Live on Estimates’: Everyday Practices of Prepaid Electricity and the Urban Condition in Maputo, Mozambique

    By Admin on 24 February 2016 Energy, Power, Slums | Maputo Journal Articles

    This article contributes to understandings of the experience of urban energy in cities where ‘slum urbanism’, uncertainty and provisionality dominate the urban condition.

  • Free ebook: Participatory planning for climate compatible development in Maputo

    By Admin on 29 January 2016 Climate change, Planning | Maputo Books

    This dual-language book addresses crucial questions about the relevance of citizen participation in planning for climate compatible development and argues that citizens have knowledge and access to resources that enable them to develop a sustainable vision for their community.

  • Who plans the African city? A case study of Maputo

    By Admin on 14 May 2015 Planning, Slums, Urban Development | Maputo Journal Articles

    This article draws on recent empirical research examining state and non-state activities on urban land development in Maputo, Mozambique.

  • (Self)Organization and urban form: combining different morphological approaches in the study of Maputo

    By Admin on 19 February 2015 Urban design | Maputo Post-doctoral Report

    This post-doctoral report by David Leite Viana examines the intersection of top-down and bottom-up processes of urban change in Maputo.

  • Review: Urbanization, Urbanism and Urbanity in an African City

    By Samuel Twumasi Amoah on 10 December 2014 Urban Development | Maputo Book Reviews

    With this book, Paul Jenkins contributes to current empirical writing of African urban studies, attempting to reframe the African urbanization debate by querying how cities in Africa are studied, discussed, theorized and written about.

  • Maputo – Landscapes of Belonging: Female Ex-Combatants Remembering the Liberation Struggle

    By Admin on 15 September 2014 History, Social services | Maputo Journal Articles

    Jonna Katto explores how female veterans living in the national capital, Maputo, in southern Mozambique, conceptualise national space and belonging, and construct its gendered meanings

  • Multiple land regimes: Rethinking land governance in Maputo’s peri-urban spaces

    By Admin on 17 April 2013 Governance | Maputo, Mozambique Papers

    Africa’s increasing levels of urbanisation have significant implications for urban land. Growing populations imply that there is increasing pressure on cities to provide economic opportunities, housing, infrastructure and social services to existing and incoming urban dwellers.

  • Unleashing Entrepreneurs or Controlling Unruly Providers? The Formalisation of Small-scale Water Providers in Greater Maputo, Mozambique

    By R Ahlers, V Guida on 9 April 2013 Economy, Infrastructure | Maputo, Mozambique Papers

    The existing legal and policy framework regulating water service provision in Greater Maputo, Mozambique appears fixated on the official service areas. In doing so it inadequately addresses the geographically varied service provision modalities which characterise the city. We argue that the predominant legal and policy framework does little to support development of improved services in areas unserved by the formal utility.

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