People from different ethnic spaces and origins continue to arrive every day to the main African cities. They are trying to survive and to improve their lives. This phenomenon is generating unique and complex changes. If big cities are clearly places of experimentation, Sub-Saharan big cities are nowadays arenas of unique novelty; places of opportunities but also of crises. It’s important to make cities liveable and it’s urgent to reflect about a sort of reconfigurations on the urban social and spatial life.
Housing
change, urban planning capacity and socio spatial cohesion in the informal
peri-urban areas in cities
of Africa (Luanda, Maputo, Bissau and S. Tome)
