The Re-emergence of Urban Renewal in Maputo

Maputo, the Mozambican capital, is undergoing a period of significant urban transformation, resulting from intervention strategies and practices adopted in the neoliberal context, underpinned by an opening to market economy, economic liberalisation and administrative decentralisation. The socio-spatial duality that has characterised Maputo since its genesis, marked by the so-called ‘cement city’ and ‘reed city’, now assumes new frontiers and territorial contours, in which socio-spatial inequalities still tend to increase (Jenkins and Wilkinson, 2002; Raposo, 2007).