Conséquences de l’étalement de la ville de Foumbot sur les terres rurales (Ouest du Cameroun)
The consequences of sprawl of Foumbot city on the rural lands (western Cameroon). Foumbot, the pole of coffee development in the Bamoun country, has become the relay center of the foods produced in the region. This new urban function is observed in the city with the creation of the other soc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bucharest
2014-08-01
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| Series: | Cinq Continents |
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| Online Access: | http://cinqcontinents.geo.unibuc.ro/4/4_9_Ngapgue.pdf |
| Summary: | The consequences of sprawl of Foumbot city on the rural lands
(western Cameroon). Foumbot, the pole of coffee development in the
Bamoun country, has become the relay center of the foods produced in the
region. This new urban function is observed in the city with the creation of
the other social and economic infrastructures. Setting-up these structures
requires spaces which the former city of coffee plantation cannot offer and
the locality launches its tentacles in its periphery (in the outskirts). This
sprawl of the city on lands that were not ready to receive it produces certain
consequences. This contribution examines the geographical effects of this
urban expansion on the new spaces conquered by the city. The analysis of
the images taken by a satellite partner in a series of inquires made on the
ground shows the expansion of the city towards the neighboring villages.
The main forms of this expansion are the invasion of the cultivated surfaces
and the swarming along the main roads that cross the colonial plantations of
coffee. New homes of urbanization are born and carry the mark of the new
urban functions. Urbanization is followed by the modification of the old rural
landscapes and by a decrease of the population living only on the work of the
earth. This uncontrolled sprawl of the city raises the problem of the rational
integration of the cultivated surfaces in the urban tissue and of the
population supply with water and social infrastructures. |
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| ISSN: | 2247-2290 2247-2290 |