Expansion urbaine et acuité des problèmes fonciers au Cameroun

Abstract

In Cameroon, urban problems are fundamentally land problems. In fact, land needs caused by urban growth are considerable. Therefore, land problems are in the center of city plan- ning. However, city planning cannot make abstraction of the crucial problems of soil. Ac- cording to urban planning specialists “land is the first material of city planning”.1 In this regard, town planning and land problem are intimately linked. The rapid growth of urban population increases grievous land problems in Cameroon (according to the population census of 2010, one of two Cameroonians reside in the city). Citizens coming from rural areas to urban areas need land to have a habitation. Face to this situation, the Cameroon State must elevate the challenge by assuring legally the control of land.