Palma Natural Gas Town, Mozambique, Africa
Year 2014 latitude: -10° 46' longitude: 40° 27' Period 2014-2054 Initiator(s) African Century Real Estate (ACRE) Planning organization ENH group Nationality initiator(s) Mozambican Designer(s) / Architect(s) Tracus Arquitectos Design organization Inhabitants 8,000 Target population 250,000 Town website Town related links https://mozambiqueminingpost.wordpress.com/tag/palma/ http://www.africancentury.co.mz/projects/ http://www.enh.co.mz/Projectos/Projectos-em-Carteira/Plano-Geral-de-Urbaniz acao-de-Palma-PGU Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
The future City of Palma in the district of Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique, is a project implemented by the national Mozambican corporation responsible for research, exploration, production and marketing of petroleum products. The original small town of around 8000 inhabitant is located in the area adjacent to the site designed for gas liquefaction units by international dealerships. The new plan is designed to receive a population of 250.000 people and to provide all the facilities needed to support the exploration activities of natural resources, a gas production factory “ Natural Gas” (LNG) and a set of energy-intensive industries, expected to create some 10.000 jobs. On the one hand the improving of the gas sector represents a great resource in the economic growth of Mozambique, but on the other hand it is possible to discuss the impact that this new intervention might have on the neighboring villages, in terms of environmental risk, resettlement and unequal distribution of wealth. source: http://www.enh.co.mz/Projectos/Projectos-em-Carteira/Plano-Geral-de-Urbanizacao-de-Palma-PGU
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