Strategies spatiales dans la medina de dakar (senegal) ; renovation, acteurs, attitudes
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Abstract EN:
The old "black town" of the colonial dakar has become a district not well integrated by the spacial rationality of the senegalese state. This district is near the town center, and takes an important surface. That is why the "medinois" area is now a place of essentiel stakes in management of the capital city. Differents strategies are developped, determined by the sector-based interests. The complexity of the landed problematic obliges the state to qualify its intervention, especially under the pressure of the "lebou" which traditionnally own the soil in all the "cap vert". The confrontation is arbitrated by the new urbain protagonistq who are generated by the immoderate growth of the city and the housing crisis which is the consequence of it.
Abstract FR:
L'ancienne "ville noire" du dakar colonial est devenue mal integre par la rationalite spatiale de l'etat senegalais. La centralite et la superficie qu'il occupe (aux portes de la ville) ont fait de l'espace medinois un terrain d'enjeux primordiaux dans la gestion de la capitale. Differentes strategies s'y deploient, determines par des interets sectoriels. La complexite de la problematique fonciere oblige l'etat a nuancer son intervention, surtout, sous la pression des lebou, detenteurs traditionnels du sol dans tout le cap vert. Le tete a tete est arbitre par les nouveaux acteurs urbains secretes par la croissance urbaine.