The environmental sustainability of Maputo selfproduced settlements: The case of George Dimitrov Neighbourhood

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2019-10-15

Authors

Salamay, H. (Author) Other; Fernando Brandão Alves (Author) FEUP

Journal

The Journal is awaiting validation by the Administrative Services.

Title: Journal of Engineering Research

Vol. 7

Pages: 94-111

ISSN: 17266009

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Scopus - 1 Citation

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities

FOS: Humanities

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00V-Z6V

DOI: 10.30918/ajer.74.19.031

Subject: The environmental sustainability of Maputo self-produced settlements

Abstract (EN): Urban environmental sustainability is currently essential to ensure a healthy society, especially in the SelfProduced Neighbourhoods (SPN), since poverty and urbanization embody their environmental problems. However, considering that the temporal construction of the SPN sets up urban tissues linked to cultural and social values of its residents, this research aims to analyse the possibility of requalifying the Maputo SPN taking advantage of the existing one in order to reach its environmental sustainability. For this purpose, a literature review of specialty and George Dimitrov Neighbourhood (GDN) in Maputo were used as a case study to understand and discuss the research question. As a result, it was found that, despite the apparent disorder of the urban tissue of the neighbourhood, GND shows a considerable morphological and social potential that can be taken advantage of in their environmental requalification. Moreover, it has been found that poverty and the scarcity or lack of adequate technical knowledge in the neighbourhood¿s self-construction is the main environmental problems detected. In this point of view, it was concluded that, it is possible to requalify environmentally Maputo SPN taking advantage of existing conditions. To this end, urban public policies must, in addition to effectively taking up the urgency of SPN environmental issues in their interventions, create sustainable solutions that understand the cultural and socioeconomic logics that guide self-construction and, thus, integrate strategically in this process.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 17