**2. Methodology**

To this end, a qualitative research of an exploratory nature was carried out, using bibliographical, documentary and photographic survey to show the dynamics of the transformations of the Mozambican urban peripheries. The hefty data were obtained between, 2012–2020. The researcher had the opportunity to visit the peripheries of the various Mozambican cities, such as: *Maputo, Matola, Xai-Xai, Maxixe, Beira, Chimoio, Tete, Beira, Nampula, Nacala, Lichinga* and other small cities, with a capital, with a view to verifying the changes that may occur in the peripheries, for the closer approximation of the socio-spatial reality that is being investigated. The data were collected in each city through informants who took us to each peripheral neighborhood, arriving there and contacting the secretaries of the neighborhoods that accompanied us in each transforming block and asking for authorization of the requirements to take as photographs of the high and elegant of the neighborhoods. Condominiums. The data were collected through photographs, these data were obtained through a comparison between the peripheries of the cities to reach the conclusion of the transformations of the urban peripheries. These transformations are perceived by the emergence of new elegant buildings and condominiums, which are pushing the poorest people to places further away from these peripheries.

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**3. Results**

**houses in the suburbs**

in Manhattan, one of New York [11].

phenomenon [10].

*Extensive African Urbanization: The Case of the Mozambican Periphery*

internet to improve the quality of the article's communication.

**3.1 The first phase of extensive urbanization the rise of duplexes and elegant** 

The first phase of the process of fostering the urban periphery, here Gutiérrez [8] calls it gentrification, was a phenomenon studied by British society Ruth Glass in his book "London: aspects of change" [9]. The term gentrification is derived from the English noun "gentry", which designates "successful" individuals or groups. The term was created to refer to a process of elitization or "enrichment" of local places in the city, previously characterized as predominantly popular areas. The same author recognizes the class character of social inequalities added to this

However, it was the Scottish geographer Neil Smith (1954–2012), based in the United States of America, who analyzed in depth the various processes of promoting poor neighborhoods in New York, with emphasis on the Harlem neighborhoods

Gentrification is an urban and social phenomenon, altered by the development of the degraded housing stock of the popular classes through its gradual investment by the middle class [12]. It is also included, as a process of urban restructuring, marked by the economic restructuring characteristic of "late capitalism" and advanced, conditioned by a more flexible subsidiary capital accumulation regime [13]. Since the mid-1990s, as main Mozambican cities such as: Maputo, Matola, Beira, Inhambane, Xai-Xai, Beira, Chimoio, Tete, Quelimane, Nampula, Pemba and Lichinga, are undergoing urban changes that end up renovating or together geographical, social and political relations producing new urbanities [14] and estab-

lishing security standards very different from previous periods [15].

global dynamics that transform urban spatiality.

residents to build and build a house own.

At the time, as transformations in the urban peripheries were driven by the country's opening up to the western capitalist world, by the growth of foreign investments and financial transactions under the effect of market liberalization,

The restructuring of the urban space gives rise to new ventures, in addition to the old periphery [16], and emerging functionalities, with the entry of new urban actors, these strategies are influenced by the furniture market and the willingness of

The precision of the data led us to understand the urban gentrification index, through two stages: (i) The selection of variables and definition of indicators, such as the type of housing existing before or after the dimensions; (ii) standardization and weighting of urban indicators, where urban housing types were compared. For the accuracy of the data, we used two stages: The first stage referred to the search for documents and a consistent bibliography regarding urban studies in Mozambique, which helped in the identification of social conditions that literature in the field of Geography presents as consolidated socio-spatial realities no urban territory in the city. Thus, among a series of works, the study by Muacuveia [5], which evaluated the residential segregation of the city, as well as the work of Maloa [6], in the analysis of exclusion in the urban area, is worth mentioning. Literature on urban dispersion was also observed, with authors such as Maloa and Nascimento [7]. It is also worth mentioning that these literatures directly infer on an extensive urbanization. The second stage of the research sought to standardize the evidence, with some tables, graphs, graphics or visual materials such as photographs from the

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94540*

*Extensive African Urbanization: The Case of the Mozambican Periphery DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94540*

The precision of the data led us to understand the urban gentrification index, through two stages: (i) The selection of variables and definition of indicators, such as the type of housing existing before or after the dimensions; (ii) standardization and weighting of urban indicators, where urban housing types were compared.

For the accuracy of the data, we used two stages: The first stage referred to the search for documents and a consistent bibliography regarding urban studies in Mozambique, which helped in the identification of social conditions that literature in the field of Geography presents as consolidated socio-spatial realities no urban territory in the city. Thus, among a series of works, the study by Muacuveia [5], which evaluated the residential segregation of the city, as well as the work of Maloa [6], in the analysis of exclusion in the urban area, is worth mentioning. Literature on urban dispersion was also observed, with authors such as Maloa and Nascimento [7]. It is also worth mentioning that these literatures directly infer on an extensive urbanization. The second stage of the research sought to standardize the evidence, with some tables, graphs, graphics or visual materials such as photographs from the internet to improve the quality of the article's communication.
