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If you are environmentally conscious,
you may consider visiting Bertoua, the Land of the Rising Sun is an earthly-friend
city that has become the cornerstones to making a smart city a reality. The issue of
global warming is on everyone’s mind these days. This is so because a sustainable
city of the future must be green.
It has been proven that African and
Asian cities have grown faster since 2000 than cities in any other part of the
world. Studies have also shown that more than half of these continents’
populations are expected to live in cities by 2050. The shift from a rural- to
an urban-dominant globe signals more strongly than ever the need to transform
how cities develop. Architects, engineers, urban planners, civil society and
policy makers face the challenges of creating sustainable, healthy, ‘smart’,
‘green’, adaptive, inclusive, productive, safe, flexible and resilient cities.
These are just a few of the characteristics that will help urban centres thrive
in the face of rising populations, growing informal settlements, pollution and
environmental degradation, often combined with poor governance and service
provision. Some cities around the world are pioneering the way, helping the
development community envision alternatives to mainstream models of urban
development, and focusing on creating environmentally friendly ‘cities for the
people’, rather than economic growth. The capital of the East Region,
Bertoua is an untouched town, located in the heart of the equatorial forest that
booms with logging and mining. Yet, Bertoua from a first glance thrills the mind
as a smart city.
In fact, the land of the rising sun a
smartest city in Cameroon for now. Landscaping and planting of flowers seems to
have a peculiar place in the peoples’ ways of living. It's definitely worth a splurge if you've been
lost in the forest. Up graded into a City council on January
12, 2008 by presidential decree No.
2008/016, Bertoua is the capital of the East Region and of Lom/ Djerem
Division. It has a population of 88,462 (per the 2005 Census), and is the
traditional home of the Gbaya people. It is a border town that shares common
boundaries with Central African Republic. It is logical that a city filled with
motorized vehicle, a large number of people and a very rich small traditional
industry is bound to have a bad air quality.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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