This chapter presents an analysis of the Urban Plan for Luanda (1941-1943), in Angola, developed by the architect-urbanists Étienne de Groër and David Moreira da Silva. In order to do so, this chapter: i) identifies the urban principles that have guided the proposal of the Urban Plan for Luanda, and the framework structure that supported it; ii) identifies and analyse original graphical and written elements related to the Urban Plan for Luanda; and finally iii) evaluates the Urban Design proposal for Luanda by Groër and Moreira da Silva. This chapter concludes that the Plano de Urbanização da Cidade de Luanda was sustained on a specific methodology that is here ascertained. Moreover, that the Urban Plan for Luanda was strategically influent in the future urban development of Luanda. This, despite the fact that this plan, paid by the City Council of Luanda, was immediately subject of alterations and revisions by the City of Council of Luanda itself, even before its conclusion by Groër and Moreira da Silva, in 1943.

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Africa,Luanda,Groer,Portuguese urban planning