Tentatives de mise aux normes urbaines internationales des « périphéries du monde ». Le cas de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Abstract

Specific public authorities practices and representations in Ouagadougou seem to demonstrate a will to make the city more competitive towards his “rivals” of the “peripheries of the world”, and to attract international Investments. But this will for order and normalize the city produces in reality contrasted results that reveal urban contradictions, and potentially conflicting urban strategies from the urban actors. So here we have an opportunity to analyze the differences between standardization through the model and the resistance of context, highlighting the field spatial contradictions.