Ponte Maputo - Katembe: Reassentamentos e a produção de novas dinâmicas urbanas

Abstract

The Maputo-Katembe bridge, built in a context of a change in political strategy by the Mozambican government at the end of the 1980s, which then began to favor neo-liberal methodologies, mobilizing private investors to carry out public works. The bridge was inaugurated in 2018, creating a link between the city of Maputo (north bank) and the Municipal District of Katembe (south bank). The implementation of this bridge and its accesses implied the removal and compensation of just over 800 families from some of the central neighborhoods of Maputo city, to various rural areas of Maputo province, far from any economic center, urban life and benefits associated with it. Thus, this investigation aimed to understand and analyze the social, urban and architectural impacts generated by the process of involuntary displacement of this population. Six families were defined as a case study, removed from the Malanga neighborhood (Maputo city) to move to Tenga, an area not covered by sufficient and efficient urban infrastructure and services. Starting from the general to the particular and looking at the locality of Tenga, this dissertation seeks to study the different ways that the population has adopted to reinvent itself and define strategies for subsistence and self-production of the place, in the context in which they find themselves.