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Trends, Methods, Drivers, and Impacts of Housing Informalities (HI): A Systematic Literature Review

This paper systematically reviews scientific papers to understand the primary forms of HI, why they arise, and how they affect the urban landscape. It addresses the question, “What are the key trends, drivers, and impacts of Housing Informality (HI), and w ...

MDPI AG2025

The Quiet Architecture of Informality: Negotiating Space Through Agency

Jérôme Chenal, Rim Mrani

Housing informality in Morocco has taken root within Rabat’s formal neighborhoods, quietly reshaping façades, extending plot lines, and redrawing the texture of entire blocks. This ongoing transformation runs up against the rigidity of official planning fr ...

MDPI AG2025

Housing Informalities Between Formal Designs and Informal Reality

Jérôme Chenal, Rim Mrani

Housing informality (HI), and particularly unauthorized modifications, are a widely spread phenomenon in Morocco’s rapidly growing coastal suburb of Harhoura, Rabat. While previous research has already focused on the socio-economic aspects of informal adap ...

2025

Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns: Case Study of Bugesera District, Rwanda

Jérôme Chenal, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Rim Mrani

Rural mobility in Africa is an under-researched issue. Rural communities have often suffered from reduced mobility that has hampered their access to essential services and facilities such as education, health care, food, and clean water. In many rural comm ...

2023

Apprendre des villes africaines

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot, Hassan Radoine, 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 ...

2020