Planning and socio-spatial inequalities in Senegal
Our research focuses on the issue of land-use planning and territorial inequalities in Senegal. It first analyzes common practices in land-use planning as regards spatial justice, then explores the significant impacts of land-use planning on the quality of life and standard of living of Senegalese people. The approach adopted involved processing, analyzing and modeling a database of the population and the socio-economic and basic social infrastructures of the country’s different regions. By performing principal component analysis (PCA), we were able to place the variables in two main groups which explain the data. This analysis was followed by advanced mapping to illustrate the particular characteristics and spatial dynamics of the land-use planning process in Senegal.