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Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda
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Villes africaines et technologies numériques: entre risques et potentiels
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Saïda Naji, Frédéric David Meylan
Les villes africaines sont actuellement en pleine croissance, tout comme la quantité de données numériques qu’elles génèrent. Dans ce contexte, le Centre Excellence in Africa (EXAF) de l’EPFL, avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de Suisse au Sénégal et du Dépar ...
EPFL2023Comprendre la construction des périphéries urbaines à Lomé et Yaoundé
Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of decades, it has become more and more difficult to study and control the urbanization processes using the available means due to their rapidity. These conditions ...
EPFL2020Analyzing four decades of literature on urban planning studies in Africa (1980–2020)
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Rémi Jaligot
Although rapid population growth will give them a significant weight in global urbanization by the middle of the century, African cities remain little known. As a result, they are essentially outside the global intellectual arena on urban issues, which jus ...
2020A New Approach to the Collection and Spatial Analysis of Land Values in Lomé and Yaoundé
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós
Understanding the land market is crucial when analyzing the spatial dynamics of cities. Spatial models, which are widely used to describe the growth of cities, are underdeveloped in Africa, due in part to the lack of urban data and/or the difficulty of col ...
2020Apprendre des villes africaines
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Hassan Radoine, Rémi Jaligot, Rim Mrani
Le premier article d’une revue est toujours le plus difficile à écrire. Que doit-on y mettre ? Qui doit écrire ? Doit-on mettre des résultats de recherche prometteurs, une vision programmatique et stratégique de la revue qui se lance ? Doit-on citer les au ...
2020Assessing motorcycle taxi activity in Cameroon using GPS devices
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós, Rémi Jaligot
The emergence of motorcycle taxis as a mode of urban transport in Africa can be seen as a bottom-up response to the larger problem of a demand that is not sufficiently met by public services. Transcending the debates regarding the relevance of this solutio ...
2019Les mototaxis et la fabrique de la ville. Cas des périphéries urbaines à Yaoundé, Cameroun
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda
L’Afrique subsaharienne a expérimenté ces deux dernières décennies, à quelques différences près d’une ville à l’autre, une rapide pénétration du transport urbain « à passager unique » : les mototaxis. Pour les experts en transports, les mototaxis répondent ...
2019Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot
In Africa, cities are unable to accommodate population growth within their current administrative limits, putting pressure on ecosystem services (ES) in peripheral areas. Existing ES related studies in the region were conducted in East and South Africa, an ...
2018A new approach to spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities: the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot
Motorcycle taxis operate in a non-regulated, uncontrolled environment, raising public health, environmental and economic issues. Consideration of such issues requires an in-depth understanding of motorcycle taxis’ organizational and operational features. U ...
2017A spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities for environmental planning The case of Port au Prince Haiti, Seventh International Conference on Advances in Applied Science and Environmental Technology - ASET 2017
Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot
We report a novel method for the spatial analysis of informal transport activities for future environmental planning. It uses a combination of spatial data gathered with GPS devices and semi-formal interviews. We show that the current configuration of the ...
2017