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Title: | The Emergence of Intermediate and Small Towns in Several Countries of French Speaking Tropical Africa |
Author: | Mainet, Guy |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108) |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Period: | August-November |
Pages: | 192-198 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Senegal Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire Cameroon Africa |
Subjects: | urbanization Urbanization and Migration small towns urban development |
Abstract: | The French-speaking countries of tropical Africa are urbanizing at a very fast level and the number of urban centres with more than 500,000 inhabitants is growing rapidly. An examination of the urban phenomenon in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon reveals diversification - polycentrism in Cameroon, centralization and macrocephaly in Senegal and Ivory Coast - and a slowdown in the growth of the metropolis in times of crisis. Sum. |