Crumbling modernisms: Luanda architectonic utopias after the boom
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چکیده
In Luanda maybe more than elsewhere, controlling the city landscape is synonymous with polity at large. Despite a tremendous political change in Angola during twentieth century, paper traces how modernist plans elaborated late colonial period (1945–1975) have influenced planning imagination of until today. It argues that construction boom reshaped end war 2002 can be interpreted as promise to break middle class free from hopeless urban fabric by promoting specific aesthetic rather facilitating social transformation. These continuities are, however, complex and fragile. What happens when utopia under control starts lose power? Reflecting on two projects built around half century apart, this explores kinesthetic experience might constitute an unexpected form ideological dissent able disrupt modernism The trajectory Kilamba City, particular, epitome oil-fed reconstruction frenzy 2000s brutally ended 2014. Looking residents, planners even state media relate project suggests unsustainability utopian suburban life eventually triggers new subjectivities directly challenges ideology endured for so long.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Critical African studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2040-7211', '2168-1392']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2022.2074484