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Title:The young (and the less young) in infra-urbain areas in Mauritania
Authors:Theunynck, SergeISNI
Dia, MamadouISNI
Year:1980
Periodical:African Environment: Environmental Studies and Regional Planning Bulletin (ISSN 1010-5522)
Volume:4
Issue:14-16
Pages:205-233
Language:English
Geographic term:Mauritania
Subjects:urbanization
informal settlements
Abstract:The full extent and urgency of the problems facing, young Mauritanians in urban and, above all, infra-urban areas can be understood only in the context of the enormous economic social and cultural upheavals which have followed upon the rapid and massive sedentarisation of a people who, up to then, had always been nomads. Sections: drought and urbanization - the myth of the city - the distortions of urban development - infra-urban overspill - an obsession with land tenure - housing - water - rehabilitation of the environment - transport - employment - the situation of women and young girls in infra-urban areas - malnutrition in infra-urban areas - conclusion. Fig., maps, notes, photogr., ref., tab.
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