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Mário de AZEVEDO (1929 – 2007). / GABINETE DE URBANIZAÇÃO DA CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DE LOURENÇO MARQUES.

Lourenço Marques [Maputo]: Gabinete de Urbanização da Câmara Municipal de Lourenço Marques, 1969.

A remarkable and complete corpus comprising 68 large format in plano thematic maps and diagrams, accompanied by 5 fascicules containing multiple charts and plates, together with 9 bound text volumes, all preserved within 23 original card boxes.

An exceptional visual and documentary record of the urban planning strategies, thematic cartography, and advanced data visualisation practices employed for the development of Lourenço Marques (Maputo) in 1969—an unusually comprehensive survival of a major late colonial planning project in Mozambique.

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