Abstract

SAINTE, Guerby  and  LAMMLE, Luca. The State and the policy of urbanization: a new perspective for the socioeconomic development of the city of Port-au-Prince (Haiti). GOT [online]. 2019, n.18, pp.179-208. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2019.18.008.

The objective of this work is to analyze the role of the State in the organization of urban space and subsequently to promote a debate on the urban structure of the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The purpose of establishing new prospects for socioeconomic development, following the natural disasters that occurred after the earthquake of January 12, 2010 and in the change of the direction of the migratory flows of the Haitian territory. Due to the decentralization of public and private services, the expansion of urban networks under Haitian territory, and the difficulties in suppressing the basic necessities in the most important region of the country, caused in the process of urbanization exacerbated during the final decades of the twentieth century and the prelude of this century.

Keywords : Urban Space; Migratory Flows; Urban Network; Urban Policy; Decentralization.

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