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What landscape for Kindele (Kinshasa, RDC)? Environments and communities with natural/human interrelations to reconcil/reinvent by the project
Kaleka N'Kole, Emeritte; Tshiunza Kabeya, Alexis; Occhiuto, Rita
2018In Delarue, Stefanie; Dufour, Rachelle (Eds.) Landscape of conflict
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Keywords :
Informal Settlements; Erosion Landscape; Geomorphic Agents; Landscape Awareness; Local Knowledge
Abstract :
[en] After independence (1960), Kinshasa (DRC) experienced a population explosion leading to massive urbanization of the hilly and sandy suburban area. These unplanned settlements, spread out on a water marked relief, imposing a square mesh urban model on unstable lands. Soon, in the slope of KINDELE appeared erosions. The study of the joint actions, natural and human interacting on this site makes it possible to affirm that the erosions are the visible sign of the existing conflict, and still ongoing, between the way of living and the geomorphological and landscape capacity to accept this urbanization. The investigation of the territorial equilibrium has set out the importance of intervening on the geometries of the street networks and parcels to readapt to the relief in order to regulate the speed of water flows and to decrease the impact of this natural force on the stability or gully soils: an urban rehabilitation. This results in a methodology based on hypotheses-projects that make it possible to envisage urbanization as a factor of landscape coaction to be accompanied over time. The objective of this contribution is not to study modes of new settlements, but rather to bring out the logic to follow in order to restore to these sites conditions favoring true sustainability.
Disciplines :
Architecture
Author, co-author :
Kaleka N'Kole, Emeritte ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Doct. art bâtir & urba. (Archi - paysage)
Tshiunza Kabeya, Alexis  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Doct. art bâtir & urba. (Archi - paysage)
Occhiuto, Rita  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'Architecture > Architecture Site Botanique
Language :
English
Title :
What landscape for Kindele (Kinshasa, RDC)? Environments and communities with natural/human interrelations to reconcil/reinvent by the project
Publication date :
2018
Event name :
eclas conference 2018
Event organizer :
university college ghent – School of Arts – landscape & garden Architecture and landscape development
Event place :
ghent, Belgium
Event date :
du 9 septembre au 12 septembre 2018
Main work title :
Landscape of conflict
Author, co-author :
Delarue, Stefanie
Dufour, Rachelle
ISBN/EAN :
9789491564130
Pages :
227-235
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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