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The demographic amplification of the city of Ziguinchor gives rise to spatial extension, which is accompanied by various problems: dysfunction in urban planning, development of economic and spatial informality. These problems jeopardize economic viability by creating imbalances between the growing need for urban services of the population and the weak or limited means of the municipality to make the necessary investments. This situation makes urban governance the most convoluted. This article adopts a method of urban territory diagnosis based on spatial analysis and that of the territoriality of the actors, expressed in the form of spatial prototypes through the mechanisms of geomatics. The results allowed, first, to make the territorial diagnosis of the city of Ziguinchor; then, to expose the growth of employment and the importance of geomatics in urban management and finally, to make innovative proposals allowing the articulation of practices of different actors for efficient urban governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]