"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 reside...
This article engages the concepts of urban sprawl and density, as the foundations for a discussion o...
This article attempts to analyse the socio-spatial effects of the forced relocation of the inhabitan...
International audienceThe city of Bamako, the Malian capital has witnessed demographic change and sp...
"This article examines the relations between practices in informal land transactions under customary...
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...
Informal real estate markets have developed as a result of deficiencies of formal real estate market...
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...
This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate: St...
International audienceThis article examines the massive and unregulated registration of land titles ...
Many urban policies have failed to eradicate slums or spontaneous settlements in Yaoundé/Cameroon. T...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
This article engages the concepts of urban sprawl and density, as the foundations for a discussion o...
This article attempts to analyse the socio-spatial effects of the forced relocation of the inhabitan...
International audienceThe city of Bamako, the Malian capital has witnessed demographic change and sp...
"This article examines the relations between practices in informal land transactions under customary...
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...
Informal real estate markets have developed as a result of deficiencies of formal real estate market...
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...
This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate: St...
International audienceThis article examines the massive and unregulated registration of land titles ...
Many urban policies have failed to eradicate slums or spontaneous settlements in Yaoundé/Cameroon. T...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
This article engages the concepts of urban sprawl and density, as the foundations for a discussion o...
This article attempts to analyse the socio-spatial effects of the forced relocation of the inhabitan...
International audienceThe city of Bamako, the Malian capital has witnessed demographic change and sp...