This link has some interesting satellite photos, and some discussion in Portuguese. http://negociosangola.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-cidade-do-kilamba-kiaxi-fin

This link has some interesting satellite photos, and some discussion in Portuguese. http://negociosangola.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-cidade-do-kilamba-kiaxi-finalizada.html http://negociosangola.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-cidade-do-ki... I wonder why they picked such an isolated spot 30 km from the capital. Angola has one of the lowest population densities in the world, surely land is not so scarce there that you need to go such a distance. EDIT: well, I'm reminded yet again of how you can't rely on journalists. I took the 30 km figure from the BBC article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18646243 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18646243 However, a check of Google maps shows that this town is a mile or so away from the capital, right outside the ring road. Even from the center of Luanda, it's not 18 miles as the crow flies. Certainly not "18 miles outside the capital". Doesn't seem like an unreasonable location, now that I've seen it. EDIT 2: the affordability of this by average Angolans (or any large number of Angolans) is a different story, but my guess is that given the population growth of Angola and the location next to the capital, this town will fill up one way or another, tho' possibly at a loss to the government, which is repaying the Chinese loan for this with oil revenues. Also, it seems that the vast majority of workers who built this were Chinese - apparently Angola didn't insist on local employment offsets.