This article examines the relations between practices in informal land transactions under customary tenure and spatial differentiation among suburbs in the periphery of the city of Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville. Urban sprawl is a permanent feature of urbanisation in Congo-Brazzaville that not only propagates slums for low-income dwellers but also entails locally embedded ways of building the city in the absence of state-led planning. The case of Pointe-Noire shows that large tracts of customary land are sold without public control, a process accompanied by the emergence of new suburbs with different stylistic patterns of housing. While suburbanisation does carry the potential to improve the quality of housing by attracting wealthy residen...
This article examines the massive and unregulated registration of land titles on the periphery of Ba...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Source of conflicts as well as of revenues, urban land has become the inévitable prism to understand...
"This article examines the relations between practices in informal land transactions under customary...
International audienceBoth stake and money ressource, urban land is nowdays inevitable in order to u...
International audienceBoth stake and money ressource, urban land is nowdays inevitable in order to u...
This article analyzes the interaction of the traces of war with institutional hybridity in shaping t...
Many urban policies have failed to eradicate slums or spontaneous settlements in Yaoundé/Cameroon. T...
National audienceThis article focuses on the relation between law and geography through the issue of...
International audienceThis article examines the massive and unregulated registration of land titles ...
We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to form...
This brief note identifies the consequences of land acquisitions in peri-urban spaces around the cit...
The slum is not only a manifestation of mismanaged urban planning in the countries of the South. The...
The land issue in Sefrou is an emerging metropolitan as fez as it is largely known in terms of suppl...
International audienceThis article, written from an Algerian perspective, analyzes and interprets cu...
This article examines the massive and unregulated registration of land titles on the periphery of Ba...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Source of conflicts as well as of revenues, urban land has become the inévitable prism to understand...
"This article examines the relations between practices in informal land transactions under customary...
International audienceBoth stake and money ressource, urban land is nowdays inevitable in order to u...
International audienceBoth stake and money ressource, urban land is nowdays inevitable in order to u...
This article analyzes the interaction of the traces of war with institutional hybridity in shaping t...
Many urban policies have failed to eradicate slums or spontaneous settlements in Yaoundé/Cameroon. T...
National audienceThis article focuses on the relation between law and geography through the issue of...
International audienceThis article examines the massive and unregulated registration of land titles ...
We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to form...
This brief note identifies the consequences of land acquisitions in peri-urban spaces around the cit...
The slum is not only a manifestation of mismanaged urban planning in the countries of the South. The...
The land issue in Sefrou is an emerging metropolitan as fez as it is largely known in terms of suppl...
International audienceThis article, written from an Algerian perspective, analyzes and interprets cu...
This article examines the massive and unregulated registration of land titles on the periphery of Ba...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Source of conflicts as well as of revenues, urban land has become the inévitable prism to understand...