The City and the Barracas: Urban Change, Spatial Differentiation and Citizenship in Maputo.

IF 1.2 Q3 URBAN STUDIES

Urban Forum Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-07-30 DOI:10.1007/s12132-020-09400-w

Sandra Roque, Miguel Mucavele, Nair Noronha

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Abstract

The paper discusses Maputo municipality's plans for the modernisation of the Mercado do Museu, an iconic informal market located in the high-end Polana neighbourhood, which has long been a place for fervent social encounter among people from different social and economic origins. The Mercado's upgrading plans emerge within the context of Maputo's intensely urban transformation that has led gentrification effects, especially in the city's wealthiest areas. This stems partly from private real estate investment, and also from large infrastructure and housing projects promoted by the Mozambican state. Modernist planning ideals and their ordering impulses shape the way municipal authorities view the city and its spaces of informality, contradicting the urban form produced and lived by the majority of Maputo's inhabitants. While Mercado do Museu has enabled the production of urban social life and the foundations for urban inclusion and citizenship, the modernisation project brings forward "conflicting rationalities" (Watson Planning Theory and Practice, 4(4), 395-407, 2003). However as modernist views of cities are broadly shared across Mozambique's urban society, the "conflicting rationalities" being played out are not only situated around urban material form; but rather between material expressions of urbanity and personhood; between urban form and urban citizenship.

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城市与加拉加斯：马普托的城市变化、空间分化与公民身份

本文讨论了马普托市政府对Mercado do Museu的现代化计划，Mercado do Museu是一个位于高端Polana社区的标志性非正式市场，长期以来一直是来自不同社会和经济来源的人们热烈社交的地方。梅尔卡多的升级计划出现在马普托强烈的城市转型的背景下，这种转型导致了士绅化效应，特别是在城市最富裕的地区。这部分源于私人房地产投资，也源于莫桑比克政府推动的大型基础设施和住房项目。现代主义的规划理念及其有序的冲动塑造了市政当局看待城市及其非正式空间的方式，与马普托大多数居民生产和生活的城市形式相矛盾。虽然梅尔卡多博物馆使城市社会生活的生产和城市包容和公民的基础，现代化项目提出了“矛盾的理性”（沃森规划理论与实践，4(4),395-407,2003）。然而，随着现代主义对城市的看法在莫桑比克的城市社会中得到广泛认同，“矛盾的理性”不仅存在于城市的物质形式中；而是在温文尔雅和人格的物质表达之间；在城市形态与城市公民权之间。

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Urban Forum Social Sciences-Urban Studies

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期刊介绍： This journal publishes papers, which engage broadly with urban processes, developments, challenges, politics and people, providing a distinctive African focus on these themes. Topics covered variously engage with the dynamics of governance, everyday urban life, economies and environments. The journal uses empirical data to reinforce and refine theoretical developments in urban studies, draws on the specificities of the African context, and opens up geographically diverse conversations on African cities. Urban Forum welcomes papers that provide rich evidence from African cities and, in doing so, builds debate and theory that often remains peripheral to urban scholarship. The journal is open to research based on a range of methodologies, but prioritizes qualitative analysis and interpretation. With this mix, research in Urban Forum demonstrates the ordinary and the exceptional nature of urbanization in African cities.