Rule by bookkeeping: the oiled circuitries of Luanda’s New Centralities
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2016
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On July 11, 2011 José Eduardo dos Santos, the President of Angola, led the opening celebrations for Cidade do Kilamba. The head of state was in charge of cutting the ribbon and unveiling the inaugural plaque for the largest of Luanda’s “new centralities.” But it was the then CEO of Sonangol, Manuel Vicente, who first spoke to the TV cameras. The National Oil Company had been officially in charge of managing the construction of the new centralities since September 2010 and its highest-ranking official took it to himself to brake down the numbers. “With today’s ceremony we are formalizing the first delivery,” he explained. “10 kilometers of roads, 115 buildings with a total of 3,180 apartments and 48 stores.” The remainder of phase one would be finalized in the following 15 months and it would amount to a total of 710 apartment buildings and 20,002 houses. By the end of the three construction phases, the initial plans foresaw, 70 to 80 thousand housing units would have been built and about 500 thousand people would be living there — a place that dos Santos then said to match “the modern way of thinking cities.”
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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