Name of the landmark
Marginal de Luanda – Boulevard along the bay of Luanda

on the landmark
According to recent data, the new marginal Luanda receives daily 2,500 people on average, using the space for leisure activities, a number that rises to the double in the weekends.
The Portuguese consortium Mota Engil / Soares da Costa led the redevelopment of the Marginal of Luanda – project cost 300 million euros – which was made ​​by the Angolan private bank, led by the Bank Atlantic and includes 147,000 m2 of pedestrian spaces, three parks infant eight spaces for the practice of various sports, five areas for cultural initiatives and 10 new stations along the promenade.

on the location / accessibility
Highly accessible and used. Low level of control, high maintenance.

level of significance
Another strong example that works as an efficient device against crime in the center is given by the renewed Marginal de Luanda, the large public space along the bay. The perfect maintenance of the public facilities, the vegetation, the floor, clean and well kept, with few security guards along it, some of which are not even armed, seem to work as a deterrent against crime and squatting.
The Marginal works also informally as an open space for cultural activities: “There are places like the beach or the Marginal that already host cultural and recreational activities. Once they brought me to a cultural center in Brazil, and when I arrived I discovered it was a school of samba with some bars: I was expecting something else coming from France, my perception was deformed because where I come from there is another idea of cultural spaces.” (Njami 2012).