Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de Libreville
Since 1970, in greater Libreville like in other sub-Saharan cities of Africa, space occupation has been dominated by individual initiative. Despite the many rules and regulations in land and urbanism, the most common practice in land appropriation remains squatting and spontaneous urbanisation. This...
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2005-12-01
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| description | Since 1970, in greater Libreville like in other sub-Saharan cities of Africa, space occupation has been dominated by individual initiative. Despite the many rules and regulations in land and urbanism, the most common practice in land appropriation remains squatting and spontaneous urbanisation. This form of territorial occupation and the rapid demographic growth of Libreville have given rise to under-integrated neighbourhoods and uncontrolled city extension. Today, in order to curb this trend, a new model of land administration has been put into practice: decentralization. This movement has led to recomposition of urban land, whose occupation and control represent major geopolitical and economic issues. This analytical outline of Libreville’s development process is focused on land occupation strategies and issues of the political administrative breakdown of the urban administrative units. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8450e1f93ca4424b8c8f6fa65c538d322022-12-21T23:28:21ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352005-12-01448149810.4000/belgeo.12167Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de LibrevilleRano-Michel NguemaSince 1970, in greater Libreville like in other sub-Saharan cities of Africa, space occupation has been dominated by individual initiative. Despite the many rules and regulations in land and urbanism, the most common practice in land appropriation remains squatting and spontaneous urbanisation. This form of territorial occupation and the rapid demographic growth of Libreville have given rise to under-integrated neighbourhoods and uncontrolled city extension. Today, in order to curb this trend, a new model of land administration has been put into practice: decentralization. This movement has led to recomposition of urban land, whose occupation and control represent major geopolitical and economic issues. This analytical outline of Libreville’s development process is focused on land occupation strategies and issues of the political administrative breakdown of the urban administrative units.http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/12167urban territoryadministrative decentralizationappropriationLibreville |
| spellingShingle | Rano-Michel Nguema Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de Libreville Belgeo urban territory administrative decentralization appropriation Libreville |
| title | Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de Libreville |
| title_full | Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de Libreville |
| title_fullStr | Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de Libreville |
| title_full_unstemmed | Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de Libreville |
| title_short | Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon : le cas de Libreville |
| title_sort | developpement de la ville decoupage et appropriation des territoires urbains au gabon le cas de libreville |
| topic | urban territory administrative decentralization appropriation Libreville |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/12167 |
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