The most populous municipality of the District of Abidjan with about 1071000 inhabitants, Yopougon is also the largest of the Ivorian metropolis. However, in this sprawling and cosmopolitan commune, the urban space is in the grip of human pressure. In the neighborhoods of Yopougon Northeast, the intimacy of the urban space reveals forms of uses or anarchic occupations. These are primarily artisanal settlements in inappropriate and uneconomic locations. Urban disorder is evident and plunges the lived experience of the population into spatial discomfort. In Yopougon, nearly 800,000 craftsmen drastically lack legal and permanent sites to exercise. The present study raises the problem of the illegal occupation of the sites by the craftsmen and these consequences on the organization of the space in Yopougon Northeast. The methodology used in this study is based on the systemic territorial approach which favors the examination of phenomena in their multiple interactions. In addition to this approach, the techniques of direct observation, documentary research and investigation have been favored.
