Our investigation is a study of the process of spatial creation and uncontrolled development of the city of Kinshasa, in the hills of the West and of the Southwest. This research has attempted to analyze the challenges and opportunities for planning and urban development. We focused on the issue of the invasion of open spaces and interstices to cables in planned cities and its environmental and socio-economic consequences. Based on our analysis, we concluded that urban policies suffer from a lack of coherent organizing space. Management of urbanization includes controlling land which could constrain spatial expansion, characterized by the paradigm of ecological marginalization. This is one of the main ways to tame urban growth and give neig...
Kinshasa connaît de nombreuses manifestations de l’érosion ravinante depuis quelques décennies. L’of...
According to most technicians, the uninterrupted urbanized areas in the outskirts of the city of Kin...
In November 2010 UN Habitat, the Nairobi-based agency that monitors the world's built environment, p...
Our investigation is a study of the process of spatial creation and uncontrolled development of the ...
Notre investigation est une étude du processus de la création spatiale non maîtrisée et du développe...
The development of the sub-Saharan African large cities peripheries is marked by sprawl, excess and ...
Short Abstract Building upon recent ethnographic work with land chiefs in Kinshasa,this papers exp...
Since most of the inhabitants of Kinshasa live in the peri-urban fringe of the city, the peri-urban ...
All over the world, but especially in the Global South, cities expand at a high pace with as a resul...
Le rejet du modèle dominant de production d’espace a donné lieu à des pratiques singulières. Celles-...
Kinshasa a symbol of urban Africa. — Kinshasa appears as a symbol. Symbol because of its growth abov...
The research aims at a geographical reading of Kinshasa, present capital of the Democratic Republic ...
Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of deca...
Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at set...
In the context of rapid urbanization in Democratic Republic of Congo, overpopulation in Kinshasa’s c...
Kinshasa connaît de nombreuses manifestations de l’érosion ravinante depuis quelques décennies. L’of...
According to most technicians, the uninterrupted urbanized areas in the outskirts of the city of Kin...
In November 2010 UN Habitat, the Nairobi-based agency that monitors the world's built environment, p...
Our investigation is a study of the process of spatial creation and uncontrolled development of the ...
Notre investigation est une étude du processus de la création spatiale non maîtrisée et du développe...
The development of the sub-Saharan African large cities peripheries is marked by sprawl, excess and ...
Short Abstract Building upon recent ethnographic work with land chiefs in Kinshasa,this papers exp...
Since most of the inhabitants of Kinshasa live in the peri-urban fringe of the city, the peri-urban ...
All over the world, but especially in the Global South, cities expand at a high pace with as a resul...
Le rejet du modèle dominant de production d’espace a donné lieu à des pratiques singulières. Celles-...
Kinshasa a symbol of urban Africa. — Kinshasa appears as a symbol. Symbol because of its growth abov...
The research aims at a geographical reading of Kinshasa, present capital of the Democratic Republic ...
Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of deca...
Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at set...
In the context of rapid urbanization in Democratic Republic of Congo, overpopulation in Kinshasa’s c...
Kinshasa connaît de nombreuses manifestations de l’érosion ravinante depuis quelques décennies. L’of...
According to most technicians, the uninterrupted urbanized areas in the outskirts of the city of Kin...
In November 2010 UN Habitat, the Nairobi-based agency that monitors the world's built environment, p...