Название: Football and Colonialism
Автор: Nuno Domingos
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Биология
Серия: New African Histories
isbn: 9780821445976
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In 1969 the Gabinete de Urbanização e Habitação da Região de Lourenço Marques (Office of Urbanization and Housing for the Region of Lourenço Marques) is created, reporting directly to the General Government. New technical studies are then carried out.95 Based on the results of preliminary inquests conducted by the General Government in the reed, the decree that created this office made this new entity responsible for “vast urban renewal operations” whose “key goal was to improve the conditions of the interested populations and provide them with the necessary collective facilities, thus avoiding, whenever possible, any major displacements of the current dwellers.” It was crucial to find a permanent address for those who came to Lourenço Marques every year looking for work, lured by the “strong magnetism of the city, by the port-railway complex and by the industrial centers of Lourenço Marques’s neighboring regions.” This required the construction of new “urban structural units” that would cater efficiently to the clusters of productive activity, and where several categories of the population would live, with no “inconvenient social segregation.”96 Devised by the engineer Mário de Azevedo, the new Plano de Urbanização (Urbanization Plan), approved by the Lourenço Marques Municipality only near the end of 1972,97 sought to achieve the stated goals. This plan already incorporated the concern for a more efficient integration of the peripheral city, in a convergence between social concerns and modern theories of neighborhood urbanism.98 “Caniço” was now promoted to a “traditional housing area,” where precarious, “spontaneous,” “undisciplined” dwellings were located, and where the “economically fragile” populations lived.99 Urban renovation in Lourenço Marques, an urgent matter for political and labor management, now also piqued the interest of a host of investors. The hypothetical construction of satellite cities and the elimination of the reed, as defended in a 1969 study,100 created an extraordinary business opportunity. While fixation of the labor force was among the incontrovertible goals of these plans, there was no agreement as to the way it was to be achieved.101 The organization of the Plano de Beneficiação da Área Suburbana de Lourenço Marques (Plan for the Improvement of the Suburban Area of Lourenço Marques), in 1971, just before independence, would become the most ambitious intervention project. It was, however, much too late.102 In the 1970s the growth of the cement city, which spread toward the industrial areas of Matola and Machava, triggered a wave of evictions.103 The process was over in a short time and the compensations offered to tenants were meager. While modernizing diagnoses defended state intervention to address the problem of the suburbs, the history of the construction of the periphery of Lourenço Marques demonstrated the active role of state institutions in the creating the problem in the first place.
The Suburban Moral Economy
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