Bipolarisation urbaine et décadence des fonctions régionales des centres urbains secondaires en République populaire du Congo
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Abstract EN:
The purpose of this study is to elucidate the description and exploration of the very pronounced imbalance both in the population and economic perspectives of the congo, which has given rise to as excessive demographic growth of the principal cities : brazzaville, the political capital, and pointe-noire, the economic capital and outlet to the sea, a growth which has occurred to the detriment of the secondary urban centres and in particular to the detriment of the rural areas which face being abandoned and also being turned into economic deserts. Instead of functioning as centres trading actively with the secondary urban centres, the (two) metropolitan cities have forged ties with the secondary centres which have almost caused the latter's subordination. The weakness and intermittent nature of the exchanges between the urban centres and the (two) metropolitan cities is preventing the creation in the conto of a balanced urban network, perceived as the ensemble of the relations between the hierarchical urban elements and the rural environment.
Abstract FR:
Cette etude vise la description et l'explication du desequilibre tres marque du peuplement et de l'espace economique congolais qui a conduit a une croissance demographique excessive des deux villes principales : brazzaville, capital politique et pointe-noire, debouche maritime et capitale economique, au detriment des centres urbains secondaires et notamment des espaces ruraux en voie d'abandon et de desertification economique. Au lieu d'etre des centres actifs d'echanges avec les centres urbains secondaires, les metropoles ont tisse avec eux des liens qui sont presque de subordination. La faiblesse et l'intermittence des courants d'echanges entre les centres urbains secondaires et les metropoles empechent la realisation au congo, d'un reseau urbain equilibre, concu comme un ensemble de relations entre les elements urbains hierarchises et le milieu rural.