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• Assah, Felix K., Ulf Ekelund, Soren Brage, Jean Claude Mbanya, and Nicholas J. Wareham. "Urbanization, Physical Activity, and Metabolic Health in Sub-Saharan Africa." Diabetes Care 34, no. 2 (2011): pp. 491-496.
• Atem, T.N.H.. Rural Society and Waste: Waste Management in the South-West Province of Cameroon. Ph.D., Swansea (Wales), 1982.
• Awambeng, Christopher M. Evolution and Growth of Urban Centres in the North-West Province (Cameroon): Case Studies, Bamenda, Kumbo, Mbengwi, Nkambe, Wum. Bern: P. Lang, 1991.
• Babina, Lucia, et al. Douala in Translation: A View of the City and Its Creative Transformative Potentials. Rotterdam: Episode, 2007.
• Bejeng Soh, Pius. Abakpa – Mankon – Bamenda: Creation and Evolution of an Urban Centre in a Traditional Milieu. Travaux et documents de l'institut des sciences humaines. Yaoundé: Délégation Générale à la recherché scientifique et technique, 30th May 1983.
• Besingi, Timothy. Community Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the Department of Community Development in Cameroon 1961-2004. MCP Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005.
• Cooperstock, Aryeh. Urban Development in Cameroon: Possible Initiatives for USAID. Washington, DC: Rivkin Associates, 1981.
• DeLancey, Mark D. “Moving East, Facing West: Islam as an Intercultural Mediator in Urban Planning in the Sokoto Caliphate,” in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspectives edited by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola, pp. 3-21. Rochester Studies in African History & the Diaspora 21. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005.
• Dikoumé, Albert François and Emmanuel Tchumtchoua. Douala: histoire et patrimoine. Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ,, 2014.
• Dzeukou, Guy Blaise. Code de l’urbanisme, de la construction et de l’habitat. Bafoussam, Cameroun: Éditions juridiques camerounaises, 2010.
• Eboumbou Jemba, Christian. Les transports urbains en Afrique: l’exemple de Douala au Cameroun. Études africaines. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012.
• Eddia, S. Transport Policy Implementation And Outcomes:The Case of Yaounde in the 1990s. Thesis, Technische Universiteit Delft, 2009.
• Ekali, Thomas Ngomba. “The fluctuating fortunes of anglophone Cameroon towns: the case of Victoria, 1858-1982,” in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective edited by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010.
• Essombe Edimo Nya Bonabebe, Jean-Roger. Douala et la répartition spatiale des entreprises: polarisation et fragmentation. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
• Essombe Edimo Nya Bonabebe, Jean-Roger. Spatialité et développement économique à Douala: entre le hasard et la nécessité. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007.
• Ewumbue-Monono, Churchill. Buea, Capital of the Cameroons: Symbol of the Nation and of Reunification. Buea, Cameroon: The Center for Research on Democracy and Development in Africa (CEREDDA), 2015.
• Fon, Lawrence and Sounders Nguh Balgah. The urbanisation process in Cameroon: patterns, implications and prospects. African political, economic, and security issues series. New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2010.
• Fondja Wandji, Yris D. Le Cameroun et la question énergétique: analyse, bilan et perspectives. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007.
• Frenay, Patrick. "Le réseau urbain camerounais: caractéristiques principales, dynamique actuelle, alternatives futures." Revue belge de géographie 111, no.3-4 N.S. (1987): 105-40.
• Gaye, Malick, et al. Enjeux et défis: appui à l’assainissement semi-collectif des quartiers défavorisés de 9 villes d’Afrique francophone: retour d’expériences. Dakar: ENDA, 2013.
• Gondolo, A. "Evolution du Peul urbain: Ngaoundéré," in Pastoralists of the West African Savanna. Selected Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fifteenth International African Seminar Held at Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, July 1979 edited by M. Adamu and A. Kirk-Greene , pp. 298-318.. International African Seminars, New Series 2. Manchester: University Press, in association with the International African Institute, 1986.
• Gormo, Jean. Maroua: histoire du reboisement d’une ville sahélienne. Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ, 2014.
• Graham, Thomas and Augustin Simo Bobda. Survey on Energy Potentials and Needs in North Cameroon. Washington DC: Agency for International Development, 1981.
• Guiffo, Jean-Philippe. Le droit de l’urbanisme et de la construction au Cameroun. Yaoundé: Éditions de l’Essoah, 2007.
• Haeringer, Philippe. "L'arbre dans la ville: lecture sociale en quatre tableaux du couvert végétal dans la ville africaine." Cahiers ORSTOM, série Sciences Humaines 17, no. 3-4 (1980): pp. 289-308.
• Infrastructures de transport: le grand chantier/Transportation: challenging prospects. Yaoundé: Societé de Presse et d'Editions du Cameroun, 2012.
• Konings, Piet. “Solving Transportation Problems in African Cities: Innovative Responses by the Youth in Douala, Cameroon.” Africa Today (London) 53, no. 1 (2006-2007): pp. 35-50.
• Mangin, Benoît, et al. Veilleurs du monde 2: art et environnement dans l’espace urbain: installations in situ et expositions. Paris: CQFD; Douala: Centre culturel français Blaise-Cendrars, 2009.
• Manjia, Marcelline, Chrispin Pettang, and Fonbeyin Abanda. "Urban Self-Building Labour Cost Modelling in Cameroon." Journal of Construction in Developing Countries 16, no. 2 (2011): pp. 69-90.
• Marguerat, Yves. "Réflexions cursives sur l'évolution des réseaux urbains en Afrique Noire." Cahiers de l'ORSTOM Sciences humaines 15, no. 2 (1978): pp. 173-185.
• Mbuagbo, Oben Timothy and Rogers Tabe Egbe Orock. "Urban Governance Policies in Cameroon and the Crisis of Political Exclusion: A Case Study of the City of Kumba." Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 47, no. 2 (April 2012): 176-189.
• Mongo, Eric Achiri. The Decision-Making Process in Road Infrastructure Development in Cameroon since 1980. Ph.D. thesis, Walden University, 2008.
• Mundorff, Therese Guiadem. Sustainability in the Supply of Drinking Water in Cameroon. Saarbrücken: Lap Lambert Academic Publ, 2012.
• Ndoh, David Tita. Implementation of Effective Accountability and Performance-Orientated Mechanisms in the Management of Water and Electricity Utilities: A Developing Country focus: CamWater and AES-SONEL, Cameroon. Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007.
• Nemb, Pierre Samuel. Projets d’infrastructures et impacts environnementaux. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010.
• Nibbeling, Xandra and Kamiel Verschuren. Making Douala: 2007-2013. Rotterdam: ICU art projects, 2012.
• Njoh, Ambe J. "Municipal councils, international NGOs and citizen participation in public infrastructure development in rural settlements in Cameroon." Habitat International 35, no. 1 (2011): pp. 101-110.
• Njoh, Ambe J. Planning in Contemporary Africa: The State, Town Planning, and Society in Cameroon. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2003.
• Njoh, Ambe J. Self-help Water Supply in Cameroon: Lessons on Community Participation in Public Works Projects. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 2003.
• Njoh, Ambe J. "Toponymic inscription, physical addressing and the challenge of urban management in an era of globalization in Cameroon." Habitat International 34, no. 4 (2010): pp. 427-435.
• Njoh, Ambe J. and Liora Bigon. "Germany and the deployment of urban planning to create, reinforce and maintain power in colonial Cameroon." Habitat International 49 (2015): pp. 10-20.
• Nkendah, Robert. Understand the Energy Demand Behaviours for a Sustainable Management of the Natural Resources in Cameroon. St. Louis: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, 2007.
• Ongolo-Zogo, Valérie and Boniface Ngah Epo. "Sources of inequality in the cost of transport mobility in the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon." Development Southern Africa 32, no. 2 (2015): pp. 229-239.
• Pierce, Morris A. “Cameroon,” in Encyclopedia of Energy. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012.
• Pondi, Jean-Emmanuel. (Re)discover Yaounde!: A Historical and Diplomatic Fresco of the Capital City of Cameroon. Yaoundé: Éditions Afric'Eveil, 2014.
• Profil urbain national du Cameroun. Nairobi, Kenya: ONU-HABITAT, Division de la co-opération technique et régionale, 2007.
• Simeu Kamdem, Michel. "Emplois et logement dans les villes du Cameroun septentrional: après l'Etat, les Alhadji?," in Le désarroi camerounais: l'épreuve de l'économie-monde edited by Georges Courade, pp. 117-29. Paris: Karthala, 2000.
• Simeu Kamdem, Michel. Produire la ville dans l'Afrique des savanes: acteurs, héritages et défits au Cameroun septentrional. Yaoundé: Editions Demos, 2004.
• Simone, AbdouMaliq. "Assembling Douala: Imagining Forms of Urban Sociality," in Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City edited by Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender, pp. 79-99. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
• Simone, AbdouMaliq. For the City Yet to Come: Urban Life in Four African Cities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
• Simone, AbdouMaliq. "Local Navigation in Douala," in Future City edited by Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, and Job van Eldijk, pp. 212-227. London: Spon Press, 2005.
• Simone, AbdouMaliq. "Pirate Towns: Reworking Social and Symbolic Infrastructures in Johannesburg and Douala." Urban Studies 43, no. 2 (Feb. 2006): pp. 357– 370.
• Simone, AbdouMaliq. "Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Douala and Johannesburg," in Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa edited by Kamran Adar Ali and Martina Rieker, pp. 135-168. London: Palgrave, 2008.
• Simone, AbdouMaliq. "Sacral Spaces in Two West African Cities," in Violence and Non-Violence in Africa edited by Pal Ahluwahlia, Louise Bethlemen, and Ruth Ginio, pp. 63-83. London: Routledge, 2007.
• Som, Simon E. Bidonvilles: Development of Dysfunctional Urban Systems in Cameroon. Aachen: Shaker, 2003.
• Stratégie De Prévention Locale De La Délinquance Urbaine a Yaoundé. Yaoundé: ONU-HABITAT, 2004.
• Tassou, André. Urbains et ruraux du Nord-Cameroun: deux mondes, une vie. Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ, 2015.
• Tassou, André. Urbanisation et décentralisation au Cameroun: essai d’analyse historique de la gestion urbaine, 1900-2012. Études africaines. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
• Tchinang, Mesmer. L’énergie pour le développement au Cameroun. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011.
• Tchuikoua, Louis Bernard. Gestion des déchets solides ménagers à Douala: acteurs, pratiques urbaines et risques environnemento-sanitaires. Ph.D. thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015.
• van Santen, Jose C. M. "Islam, Gender and Urbanisation Among the Mafa of North Cameroon: The Differing Commitment to.." Africa (Edinburgh University Press) 68, no. 3 (1998): p. 403.
• Yemmafouo, Aristide. Urbanisation et espaces périurbains en Afrique subsaharienne: pratiques à l’Ouest-Cameroun. Paris: L’Harmattan Editions Distribution, 2013.
• Zibi, Joséphine. L’ingénierie sociale du développement: à l’école de l’eau. Paris: Harmattan, 2010.