Another excellent forthcoming title published by Duke University Press that we have recently indexed, António Tomás’s In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda, is a compelling and original study of the shifting topography of the oldest European settlement in sub-equatorial Africa and the capital of Angola. In this book, Tomás (associate professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg) makes use of ethnography, planning theory, and his own personal experience growing up in Luanda to show how the city’s boundaries, its “asphalt frontier,” have been transformed since the days of Portuguese colonization, focusing in particular on how squatting has been central to Luanda’s historical evolution. Relevant to scholars of urban studies, planning, African studies, anthropology, and sociology, In the Skin of the City is scheduled to be published in July 2022. More information about this title is available at the Duke University Press website here.