CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Spaces of Lourenço Marques
Chapter 2: The Politics of Visibility
The “City of Reeds” Debate, 1962–65
Chapter 3: The Politics of Proximity
Clandestine Masonry House Construction in the Subúrbios, c. 1960–74
Chapter 4: An Immovable Legacy
The Nationalization of Housing and Its Consequences, 1976–92
Chapter 5: Planning in the Subúrbios, 1977–92
Conclusion: Multiple Trajectories
ILLUSTRATIONS
I.2. A path in the caniço, late 1970s
I.3. Map of Maputo in the late 1970s
I.4. Chamanculo, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the subúrbios, 1969
1.1. The archbishop of Lourenço Marques surveys the Bairro Indígena after a storm, 1966
1.2. The curve where city meets subúrbios, 1969
1.5. Pushing a truck through suburban roads, 1971
1.6. A water fountain in the subúrbios, undated
1.9. Cement mix was often used to plaster reed houses, Maxaquene, late 1970s
1.10. Site plan and reed house floor plan in and 1.11 Maxaquene, 1976
1.12. The Guambe house, built in Chamanculo in the 1930s, in 2011
1.13. Jochua Guambe and his family, early 1950s
1.14. The Tembe house, built in Chamanculo in the early 1960s, in 2012
1.15. Firewood for sale, Minkadjuíne, 1987
1.16. João da Costa pours a drink at his Chamanculo cantina, 1960s
1.17. Dinis Marques and the da Costa children behind the Xibinhana cantina, mid-1960s
1.18. A compound in Xipamanine, 1978
1.19. The Bairro Indígena, 1940s
1.20. Lídia Manhiça Muhale, Chamanculo, 2011
2.1. View of the City of Cement from the caniço, 1960s
2.2. Traditional leader Frederico de Almeida Cumba, 1950s
2.3. Traditional leaders, police officers, and Portuguese administrators, 1950s
