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Island Housing and Peri-Urban Agriculture in the City of Luanda
Luanda presents a growing scenario of island housing, with its neighbourhoods comprising a significant percentage of the precarious income population living in a confined regime, in backyards behind houses and buildings making shared use of spaces for everyday use such as the kitchen and bathroom. This scenario is ignored by official institutions and has been aggravating the general picture of existing urban poverty and the lack of access and availability of quality and quantity food for this population. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the diagnosis and analysis of the phenomenon of this “new dwelling” in the city of Luanda, which we call new island housing. It is viewed from the perspective of comfort in housing and the importance of the practice of peri-urban agriculture considered as residual rural practice existing in many of the city’s neighbourhoods and in the lives of the residents of this island-dwelling and these neighbourhoods. It is intended to understand how to integrate this reality into the panorama of housing supply in the city of Luanda in order to discuss quality housing, healthy food, decent work with a fair salary and a sustainable environment in the neighbourhoods, all within a framework of sustained economic development and social development of families.
Island Housing and Peri-Urban Agriculture in the City of Luanda
Luanda presents a growing scenario of island housing, with its neighbourhoods comprising a significant percentage of the precarious income population living in a confined regime, in backyards behind houses and buildings making shared use of spaces for everyday use such as the kitchen and bathroom. This scenario is ignored by official institutions and has been aggravating the general picture of existing urban poverty and the lack of access and availability of quality and quantity food for this population. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the diagnosis and analysis of the phenomenon of this “new dwelling” in the city of Luanda, which we call new island housing. It is viewed from the perspective of comfort in housing and the importance of the practice of peri-urban agriculture considered as residual rural practice existing in many of the city’s neighbourhoods and in the lives of the residents of this island-dwelling and these neighbourhoods. It is intended to understand how to integrate this reality into the panorama of housing supply in the city of Luanda in order to discuss quality housing, healthy food, decent work with a fair salary and a sustainable environment in the neighbourhoods, all within a framework of sustained economic development and social development of families.
Island Housing and Peri-Urban Agriculture in the City of Luanda
da Costa Sanches Galvão, João Rafael (editor) / Duque de Brito, Paulo Sérgio (editor) / dos Santos Neves, Filipe (editor) / da Silva Craveiro, Flávio Gabriel (editor) / de Amorim Almeida, Henrique (editor) / Correia Vasco, Joel Oliveira (editor) / Pires Neves, Luís Miguel (editor) / de Jesus Gomes, Ricardo (editor) / de Jesus Martins Mourato, Sandra (editor) / Santos Ribeiro, Vânia Sofia (editor)
International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability ; 2021 ; Leiria, Portugal
2021-05-09
11 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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