[ Dégradation écologique des conditions d’habitabilité des parcelles situées sur les servitudes de la rivière yolo dans la commune de Lemba (RDC) : Cas des quartiers Foire, Molo, Kimpwanza et Salongo ]
Volume 39, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 1123–1138
Sylvain Nkate Tshiesese1
1 Chef de travaux, Département de Géographie-Sciences de l’environnement, Faculté des Sciences, Université Pédagogique Nationale (UPN), BP 8815, Kinshasa 1, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
At its origins, the commune of Lemba was made up of the planned. Free and intertitial spaces were planned for the future development of the town (respect for easements of watercourses and traffic lanes, protection of reserved green spaces, municipal wasteland, land for the construction of housing, etc). Since independence, the city of Kinshasa has not been governed by any sanitation plan. It was a time marked by the absence of regulations relating to land use (constructability standards, town planning standards, envirronmental protection standards, housing standards, etc.) This is what justified self-construction in all municipalities. The occupation of non aedificandi areas has sometimes been carried out with the complicity of local, urban, political and customary authorities throughout the city of Kinshasa. The occupation of spaces by the inhabitants has taken place without taking into account urban planning standards for construction, environmental protection and housing. This engendered negative inhabiting patterns of building, inhabitingand living. The models of living determine today, in the minicipality, the compacteness which translates in its own way the negative morphological and functional diversities in all the districts. They characterize most of the plots which have more parcel space and effective means of Kinshasa to menage rainwater, which has made all closed living environments characterized by difficult accessibility conditions, with the absence of termsanitation fears.
Author Keywords: degradation, habitabiliity, parcels, servitudes, quarters, conditions.
Volume 39, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 1123–1138
Sylvain Nkate Tshiesese1
1 Chef de travaux, Département de Géographie-Sciences de l’environnement, Faculté des Sciences, Université Pédagogique Nationale (UPN), BP 8815, Kinshasa 1, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
At its origins, the commune of Lemba was made up of the planned. Free and intertitial spaces were planned for the future development of the town (respect for easements of watercourses and traffic lanes, protection of reserved green spaces, municipal wasteland, land for the construction of housing, etc). Since independence, the city of Kinshasa has not been governed by any sanitation plan. It was a time marked by the absence of regulations relating to land use (constructability standards, town planning standards, envirronmental protection standards, housing standards, etc.) This is what justified self-construction in all municipalities. The occupation of non aedificandi areas has sometimes been carried out with the complicity of local, urban, political and customary authorities throughout the city of Kinshasa. The occupation of spaces by the inhabitants has taken place without taking into account urban planning standards for construction, environmental protection and housing. This engendered negative inhabiting patterns of building, inhabitingand living. The models of living determine today, in the minicipality, the compacteness which translates in its own way the negative morphological and functional diversities in all the districts. They characterize most of the plots which have more parcel space and effective means of Kinshasa to menage rainwater, which has made all closed living environments characterized by difficult accessibility conditions, with the absence of termsanitation fears.
Author Keywords: degradation, habitabiliity, parcels, servitudes, quarters, conditions.
Abstract: (french)
A ses origines, la commune de Lemba était constituée des quartiers planifiés. Des espaces libres et interstitiels étaient prévus pour l’aménagement futur de la commune (respect des servitudes des cours d’eau et des voies de circulation, protection des espaces verts, espaces ouverts réservés, friches communales, terrains pour la construction des logements, etc.). Depuis l’indépendance, la ville de Kinshasa n’est pas régie par un plan d’assainissement quelconque. C’est une époque marquée par l’absence de la règlementation relative à l’occupation de sol (normes de constructibilité, normes d’urbanisme, normes de protection de l’environnement, normes de l’habitat...). C’est ce qui a justifié l’autoproduction et l’auto construction dans toutes les communes. L’occupation des zones non «aedificandi» s’est réalisée parfois avec la complicité des autorités locales, urbaines, politiques et coutumières dans toute la ville de Kinshasa. L’occupation des espaces par les habitants, s’est réalisée sans tenir compte de normes urbanistiques de construction, de protection de l’environnement et d’habitat. Cela a engendré des modèles négatifs de construction, d’habiter et de vivre... Les modèles d’habiter déterminent aujourd’hui, dans la commune, la compacité qui traduit de sa manière les diversités morphologiques et fonctionnelles négatives dans tous les quartiers. Ils caractérisent la plupart des parcelles qui n’ont plus d’espaces parcellaires et des moyens de gérer les eaux usées pluviales, ce qui a rendu tous les milieux de vie fermés et caractérisés par les conditions d’accessibilité difficiles, avec l’absence des conditions criantes d’assainissement.
Author Keywords: Dégradation, habitabilité, parcelles, servitudes, quartiers, conditions.
How to Cite this Article
Sylvain Nkate Tshiesese, “Ecological degradation of the living conditions of plots located on the easements of the Yolo river in the municipality of Lemba (DRC): Case of the Foire, Molo, Kimpwanza and Salongo districts,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1123–1138, May 2023.
