Fabio Vanin (Latitude) is participating to the conference Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa held in Lisbon (5-6 September 2013) and organized by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon and the International Planning History Society (IPHS).

The Conference aims at re-examining the history of colonial urban planning in Africa and its legacies in the post-independence period, to learn from contemporary African scholarship, and to discuss how postcolonial urban planning cultures can actually address these urban challenges and contribute effectively for the development of resilient – sustainable cities in Africa.

Latitude is focusing on Luanda, Angola (presenting some of the results of the ongoing research Mobile A2K) and Maputo, Mozambique (presenting part of the PhD research by Fabio Vanin ‘Maputo, open city’) having the opportunity to confront with many ongoing researches in lusophone countries and in other African countries.