New towns in Africa: ideal cities or urban utopias?
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The Akon City project in Senegal.
© Hussein Bakri
By: Charlie Dupiot Follow
50 mins
By 2050, African cities are expected to accommodate 950 million additional inhabitants according to a recent OECD report.
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In order to avoid the explosion of metropolises and the development of slums, new agglomerations have already emerged on the continent.
Diamniadio and soon Akon city in Senegal, Vision city in Rwanda, Sémé city in Benin and Yennenga in Burkina are some of these new city projects imagined as sustainable, modern, intelligent cities.
Are these large complexes really attractive for future inhabitants?
How to avoid creating new dormitory cities?
How to imagine the African city of tomorrow?
With:
Anne Durand
, urban architect, founder of the architecture and town planning agency AUAD in Paris, member of the association of urban project management Les Ateliers de Cergy.
Author of
Urban Mutability: the new fabric of cities
(Infolio)
Romarick Atoke
, Beninese architect, Head of Architecture & Urban Design of Sémé City, a new city in Benin.
Founding President of the
AFRIKArchi
association
Mamadou Dieng
, PhD student in spatial planning and town planning at the TVES laboratory (Territories, Cities, Environment & Society)
University of Lille
.
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