Niamey-Bas

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Street market on 26 rue NB in ​​Niamey-Bas in 2018

Niamey-Bas is a district of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Niamey-Bas ( French for "Nieder-Niamey") is located in the city center on the Niger River , in parts of the arrondissements of Niamey II and Niamey III . It roughly encompasses the Terminus and Zongo districts as well as the eastern part of the Kombo district and the western part of the Maourey district . The standard scheme for street names in Niamey-Bas is rue NB 1 , with the abbreviation NB in the French rue for streetfor Niamey-Bas and finally a number follows. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations.

history

Aerial view of Niamey-Bas in 1930

The city of Niamey was founded in its current form through the establishment of a French military post in 1902/1903. This military post and the resulting European settlement were originally located in the Niamey-Bas area. After a fire in the neighboring indigenous settlement and because of the heavy immigration due to a famine in 1932, a new European settlement was finally built in the Plateau district in 1937 and the site in Niamey-Bas was abandoned.

After Niger gained independence in 1960, Plateau retained the function of the administrative center of the entire state, while Niamey-Bas acted as a trading center. The district received new life in the 1960s with the construction of a housing estate by the state bank Crédit du Niger , which was intended to alleviate the housing shortage in the city. The Gawèye district in Niamey-Bas was moved to the other bank of the Niger River in 1979 to make space for representative buildings. In the 1980s, Niamey-Bas temporarily formed a joint administrative district (quartier) with the area around the National Museum .

literature

  • Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin Captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 15-37 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, Hugues Leroux, Florence Verdet, Roberto Chavez: Street Addressing and the Management of Cities . World Bank, Washington, DC 2005, ISBN 0-8213-5815-4 , pp. 85 and 89 .
  2. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 16 and 18 .
  3. ^ Manzo Mahamane: Croissance urbaine et politique de peuplement au Niger . In: Croissance demographique et urbanization. Politiques de peuplement et aménagement du territoire. Séminaire international de Rabat (15-17 May 1990) . Association Internationale des demographes de langue française, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7332-7012-5 , p. 382 .
  4. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 29 .
  5. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 30-31 .

Coordinates: 13 ° 30 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E