The spatial dynamics of greater Lomé and Atakpamé lead to land pressures marked by increased demands for building plots. These desires for land create land insecurity, the implications of which disrupt the social development of populations. The objective of This item is to explain how land insecurity and its implications influence the social evolution of the populations of greater Lomé and Atakpamé. To achieve this, this research used quantitative and qualitative approaches based respectively on questionnaire administration and individual interview techniques. In total, 97 people victims of land insecurity were interviewed in greater Lomé compared to 89 in Atakpamé. The results from field studies showed that in greater Lomé, land insecurity is caused by double sales of land, eviction and expropriation. In Atakpamé, they manifest themselves in the selling off of arable land and the clandestine sale of inheritance land. As a result of these insecurities, buyers, whether from greater Lomé or Atakpamé, have lost their land and are forced to return, for some, to rental properties and for others, to family homes. Also, the loss of property rights on land has caused, among the populations of Atakpamé, the cessation of income-generating activities based mainly on agriculture. These situations have made buyers vulnerable and destabilized their social and economic development. Which plunges them into long-term precariousness.

Over the last two decades, greater Lomé has experienced a spatial evolution marked by a disproportionate fixation of Lomé residents on the ground. This liberal occupation of urban land undermines the development of the capital and delays the vision of a sustainable city initiated by the public authorities following the Habitat III conference of the United Nations in Quito in 2017. The objective of this article is to show how largely uncontrolled spatial dynamics delay the sustainable development of greater Lomé. To achieve this, this research used quantitative and qualitative approaches based respectively on questionnaire administration and individual interview techniques. In total, 232 landowners and resource persons were interviewed. Field investigations have shown that liberal fixation on land has led to the occupation of unapproved areas and the privatization of administrative reserves. This creates urban instability marked by conflicts between public authorities and populations. This situation, very detrimental to the sustainable city, demonstrates weakened urban governance.

In Togo and particularly in greater Lomé and Atakpamé, we see that the State has difficulty regulating or controlling land. The objective of this article is to examine the factors that make land regulation difficult in Togo in general and in greater Lomé and Atakpamé in particular. To achieve this, the research used quantitative and qualitative approaches based respectively on questionnaire administration and individual interview techniques. For the quantitative survey, 208 landowners were interviewed in greater Lomé compared to 122 in Atakpamé. Concerning the qualitative approach, 24 resource people were interviewed in greater Lomé compared to 21 in Atakpamé. The results of the investigations showed that the non-registration of plots purchased in the cadastral service, the absence of land mapping, unconventional subdivisions, land speculation and the purchase of family land constitute factors which make regulation and management difficult. land security. To compensate for illegal urban practices and sustainably control land, it is necessary, in addition to existing measures, to adopt an inclusive and participatory approach which would bring populations, local elected officials and the state into a chain of collaboration.