The Green Structure in Moundou: Between Old Design and Current Expectations
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
As everywhere in Africa, urbanization of certain regions by colonists respected in the slightest degree the urban standards. They planned green space for a green urban living, and relaxation and to embelish the city. From the creation of these cities to recent times, it was the age of sustainable urban planning and the emergence of the ecological urban planning. In Chad, the same urban public policy was respected until 1970. After that date, new management practices and different types of green spaces appeared, expressed by the illegal occupation of green areas in large cities in Chad. In Moundou, the economic capital city of Chad, the superficies of green spaces communal forest have not change. Those which are there, have been dispossessed for makeshift homes in order to reduce insalubrity and insecurity, whereas 53.74% of respondents believe that the number of green spaces in the urban area if moundoulaise is insufficient and 46.26% who consider them insufficient claim for more green spaces. The objective of this article is to study the evolution of the place the plant in the city from the SPOT scene dated from 2014 and the map of the town of Moundou in 1975. The integration of expectations of citizens in a GIS helped provide a green corridor based on the concept of "biodiversity, accessibility, connectivity," according to the desire of the population of Moundou. Keywords: Green spaces, old design, Moundou.
Authors and Affiliations
Djangrang Man-na, Ndoutorlengar Médard, Mbaye Ibrahima
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