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Africapolis / AFD: Presentation – Debate on the topic "Dynamics of Urbanization in West Africa"

Agence Française de Développement and SEDET invite you to a debate
  

Wednesday 2 July, from 3 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

at Agence Française de développement (AFD), 5 rue Roland Barthes, Paris, 12ème

 

on the topic:

 
"Dynamics of Urbanization in West Africa - 1950-2020: updating knowledge"
 

The AFRICAPOLIS project aims to better identify West Africa’s population areas and get a better understanding of the nature of the region’s cities and how they are changing in order to improve interventions. The project is supported by AFD and coordinated by SEDET teams (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot).

The project is innovative and ambitious. It crosses demographic data, lists of cities, satellite pictures and makes it possible to identify inhabited areas with over 100 000 inhabitants and enter West Africa into a global database of cities (e-Geopolis).

Maps and results from this research shake up the way African urbanization is usually interpreted, such as can bee seen with UN statistics. They highlight modes of urbanization that development partners have to know about: from a “metropolization from the top”, urban sprawl in major cities, to an “urbanization from the bottom”, which results from the gradual slowing down of the rural exodus against a backdrop of strong demographic pressure. These are some of the captivating issues raised by this geostatistical approach to urbanization in West Africa.
  

Agenda

 Introduction :

Eric Jourcin, Economist, Africa Department, AFD

Presentation of AFRICAPOLIS results:

Eric Denis, François Moriconi-Ebrard, SEDET

 

Discussant:

Guillaume Josse, Local Authorities and Urban Development Division, AFD

 
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