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• 20 mai 2013

  Call for papers - Geography

  Cities of East Africa in mutation

  « Territoire en Mouvement » Review

  In 2010, approximately 40% of Africans were city dwellers, but this proportion was only 23.6% in East Africa as defined by UN-Habitat which we can here discuss the criteria. Today, these cities are entering more or less rapidly in the competitive global system and are becoming key actors of this system.What is the price of these mutations? Are they happening at the price of the existing city, in its form and in its social reality? Can these mutations lead to an ever greater vulnerability of poor people and their relegation?

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