The City and the barracas: Urban Change, Spatial Differentiation and Urbanity in Maputo
Maputo, the Mozambique city capital, has been experiencing significant changes in its urban morphology.These changes have been pushed by public interventions, linked to the recent Maputo structure plan and the expansion of the city towards new neighbourhoods, or to private-led real estate developments resulting in the mushrooming of numerous high-rise buildings in the wealthier areas of the city.