5/18/2023 0 Comments Ever After by Graham Swift![]() The household survey covered a sample of 206 households drawn from a mother population of 1373 households. Surveys were conducted in 2015 in the southern urban districts of Kenya, Diabir and Kandialang. How, in subSaharan Africa and especially in Senegal, does the city take place in its margins? The choice of Ziguinchor is justified by its location in a remote, landlocked and transboundary region and the physical constraints of its site. The margin is understood here in the sense of a spatial and social construction, at the same time border but also, central space inscribed in relations of power (Sierra and TadiƩ 2008). ![]() Today, strong urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa makes urban peripheries a fertile ground of investigation to apprehend the production of the city in its margins. However, many works of geographers were focused on the commune, instead of the city as space produced by its actors. From the end of the 1990s, urban research in sub-Saharan Africa began to pay more attention to small and medium-sized cities (Bertrand and Dubresson 1997) in a context marked by the promotion of decentralization and local development through international cooperation. ![]()
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