The Production of Urban Peripheries For and By Low-Income Populations at the Turn of the Millennium

Maputo, Luanda and Johannesburg

Bibliographic Data

ID4603899
AuthorsVanessa De Pacheco Melo, Vanessa Melo (0000-0003-4007-6686, University of Lisbon, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume42
Issue4
Pages619-641
Publication date2016-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057070.2016.1196955
OpenAlexW2469020140
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The dynamics of rapid urbanisation and urban trends in the present neoliberal context, which arise from the production of space in the capitalist mode of production, are evident in the peripheries recently produced for and by low-income populations. This article examines these peripheries in representative southern African cities, with Maputo as the main case study, analysed in relation to Luanda and Johannesburg. Basing my argument on the overarching theory of the production of space, I seek to understand how the interventions undertaken by the state and low-income people, and the interrelationship between these two main agents and the urban morphology, vary according to the historical, political and socio-economic specificities of each country. I argue that in Maputo, more than in the other two cities, these specificities, expressed in the morphology of these peripheral areas, benefit some crucial aspects of the living and housing conditions of Maputo’s low-income population, which is the city’s most vulnerable social group

Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Mode of production · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Urbanization · Demography · Local Economic Development and Planning · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Development and Societal Issues

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