The
main point primary focus of the first part is urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Thus, oOne century ago, cities were
near to not really existing virtually nonexistent in this region
, whereas and the United Nations projections
for 2025 announce predict near to a half of Sub-Saharan Africans living in cities
by 2025. It is an important change, having consequences
for and being consequences of
the development process. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world
, on par with southern and south-eastern Asia. This region is
experiencing heavy difficulties as they begin beginning a development process
with heavy difficulties. According to the paper, one of the main “difficulties” that slows development process is demographic growth (an increase of 74% between 1930 and 1960, of 73% between 1960 and 1980 and of 35% between 1980 and 1990). Demographic growth and
the development process lead of course to an exponential increase
of in urban population, even
if though the relative
part proportion of Sub-Saharan African urban population in the entire world
still is is still minor. This increase will
be translate
d into both an increase in the size of existing urban zones and an increase in the number of existing cities. The
urban network is based on three levels: first, conurbations and megalopolises, second, large cities
, and third
, small- and medium-size
d cities. The
XXIth twenty-first century African cities led by new generations in countries where more and more people claim an urban identity will take
the place
instead of the
XXth twentieth century African cities
which are based on a more or less segregated model inherited from colonial period. Demographic and social changes should be associated with political
changing, change, especially in term
s of
planning regional planning, decentralisation, and local democracy.
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