This article seeks to show how the new landscape enters the Mozambican urban peripheries. The landscapes of the Mozambican urban peripheries were for many years characterized as consisting of precarious housing, the so-called in Mozambican urban geography of “reed city” as opposed to the centre, considered a “cement city”. Currently, the landscape of the periphery is gaining a new historical and conceptual re-signification due to the installation of new housing projects, which are replacing the landscape of the “reed city” with that of “cement city”, with increasing numbers of self-constructions made of blocks and bricks, which participate in the regeneration of the periphery, which on one hand, replaces the houses that were once made of reeds, sticks and adobe (matope or clay) and on the other, implements the new housing developments, transposing the paradigm of the duality of the landscape, “cement city” versus “reed city”, in vogue from the 1960s to 1990s.