Abstract
Is the simple establishment of a factory in a rural area sufficient to create a city ? The example of the textile plant of Dadja (150 km north of Lomé ; with 1 500 workers, deriving from all parts of Togo) shows that the little village has strongly grown (up to a population of 7 000 inhabitants), and the buildings have improved qualitatively like-wise. But this population is not deeply rooted in Dadja : the labourers of the factory do only their daily shoppings here ; they grow large quantities of food for themselves and send all their savings back to there home-town, and even invest there. Therefore, urbanity doesn't exist at Dadja neither with regards to a stable population, nor to the accumulation of capital, nor the development of urban functions. Dadja isn't anymore a village, and isn't yet a city, but represents a third type of human settlement, namely the «camp».
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