Plateau (niamey)

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Street scene on the Boulevard de l'Indépendance in Plateau (2018)

Plateau is a district of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Street scene on Rue des Lacs (Rue PL 54) in Plateau (2019)

Plateau is located on a plateau in the center of Niamey, in parts of the arrondissements Niamey I and Niamey II . The district includes the districts of Château 1 , Issa Béri and Plateau 2 . It extends over an area of ​​about 524 hectares . The standard scheme for street names in the south of Plateau is rue PL 1 , where the French rue for street is followed by PL for plateau and finally a number. 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. In the Plateau 2 district, on the other hand, as in Yantala Haut, the rue YN 1 scheme is used, where the abbreviation YN stands for Yantala Nouveau (Yantala Haut).

history

In 1937, during the French colonial era , the Europeans' quarter was built in Plateau, replacing that in Niamey-Bas . The dry valley Gounti Yéna formed the park-like border to the settlement of the local population.

After Niger gained independence in 1960, Plateau retained the function of the administrative center of the entire state. In the 1980s, Plateau was administratively one of the then 79 districts (quartiers) of Niamey and was divided into 13 sectors. The resident population now consisted of senior executives from Niger and a few skilled workers sent to the city from abroad. With Cases Allemandes and Tchana-Carré, two small poor settlements emerged between the residential areas of Plateau .

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. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 715–716 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  2. ^ The Study on Sanitation Improvement for the Niamey City in Republic of Niger. Appendix F: Existing Urban Conditions. (PDF) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), August 2000, pp. F-1 and F-3 , accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ a b 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. 18 and 30 .
  5. ↑ Apollinaire Tini: La gestion des déchets solid ménagers à Niamey au Niger: essai pour une stratégie de gestion durable . Thèse de doctorat. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon 2003, p. 76 ( theses.insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  6. ^ 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 .
  7. ↑ Hamadou Issaka: L'habitat informel dans les villes d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone à travers l'exemple de Niamey (Niger) . Thesis. Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau 2007, Chapitre VII L'habitat informel ou le paysage de la pauvreté ( memoireonline.com [accessed April 21, 2019]).

Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 6'  E