urbanisation in the beginning was finding any housing after having been forcefully evicted from the former place of residence. Many … within the metropolis of Abidjan, which has undergone a process of rapid, unplanned and irreversible urbanisation since 2012 … quantitative data set includes the documentation of 52 courtyards and 591 housing units. The main driver of spontaneous …

rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …

Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East …. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping …