Saint-Louis du Sénégal au début du XIXe siècle : du comptoir à la ville.

Abstract

A. Sinou—Saint-Louis of Senegal at the Beginning of the 19th Century: Front Trading Post to City. The layout of several sub-Saharan African cities can be referred to models imported from Europe. Long before colonization however, urbanization had taken form around trading post (comptoirs) along the coast. For more than a century, original types of spatial organizations and practices developed there. Though neither well-known nor formalized, these did not vanish with colonization but strongly affected the forms of production of towns, as this history of the development of Saint-Louis in the early igth century shows.