Cet ouvrage est le résultat d'une recherche menée grâce à l'Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement qui m'a accueillie comme chercheuse entre 2016 et 2018. Je remercie …

What is a post-network city, and does this notion apply to the cities of sub-Saharan Africa? If
the term means urbanised areas in which large sections of the built environment function, in …

CONCRETE CITY “Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis
of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West …

This paper offers an exploration of urban expansion from the point of view of the individual
residents buying land, settling and living in new, rapidly growing peripheral settlements of …

Purpose Suburbanization has become a major characteristic of urban development in sub-
Saharan Africa, and shifting from agricultural-based areas modus vivendi to urban lifestyles …

This article concerns the relationship between uneven peri-urban growth and
heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique. Much research …

While this body of work addressed some of the fundamental transformations of the suburbs
in the United States, questions remained unanswered, especially when taking a more global …

Cet article présente et discute certains enjeux de la recherche sur les grandes villes
africaines. D'abord exclues, dans la littérature sur la mondialisation urbaine, par …

Cet article entend donner quelques clefs de lecture géographiques pour comprendre
comment et par qui la ville est aujourd'hui produite en Afrique de l'Ouest. Le long du Golfe …

Transition in land use rights and tenure structures from agricultural to urban land constitutes
the basis of urban growth in West African cities. A multitude of highly adapted forms of land …