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Maputo argues with the light
Concrete, iron and a Portuguese grid. Four pieces, in the order they are worth reading.
Maputo argues with the light
Pancho Guedes built here for twenty years and the concrete still misbehaves — the Saipal bakery, the Smiling Lion.
The iron station, and the attribution that stuck
The CFM terminus was credited to Eiffel's office for most of a century on very thin evidence.
The grid, and the bay
The Portuguese laid a rectilinear plan down to the water, and the city still runs on it.
Marrabenta on a Sunday
A guitar music that came out of the city's suburbs and is still played in them.