Eighth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

In the old tradition, the production of Saharan cities, responded with ingenuity to the pressing needs of the communities. In order to do this, the men of the region have acted to the extreme of their knowledge with limited means, and have therefore undertaken establishments perfectly in keeping with their particular context represented by the ksour. But as a result of technical progress and social change, Saharan cities are constantly undergoing profound changes. The new productions engage in an anarchic urbanism requiring a thorough review and research. Hence, the practices of urbanism in Algeria, despite the large number of documents developed (PUD, PDAU, POS…), have not allowed until today the mastery of the management and planning and of the urban evolution. These instruments have shown their inability to produce and even to manage the overall framework and the urban form desired in Algerian city, especially with a very rapid evolution which resulted in the urban malfunctions and anarchy of the forms of the new extensions and the illegal constructions identified. Such a situation calls into question the urban procedures adopted and the instruments put in place by the State. It becomes therefore timely to engage in reflection with a view to an orientation that is better adapted to the practice of the urban planning with, as a concern, the important offset noticed between the regulatory documents and the practices of the field. As well, the fields prior to examine concern: The legal process and socio-economic development of plans of urban planning, with as concerns of articulation between them, the different scales of intervention on the space. As well as the urban practices of the ground, the development features of urban systems and their relation to the plans of town planning to allow to detect the differences between the two systems in the presence. This double concern is based on the observation of the various problems that characterize the Algerian cities and especially the city Saida and the criticisms of the space products in the new urban agglomerations both qualitatively and quantitatively. The city Saida is then a result of an anarchic urbanisation, accelerated, exploded at the same time fragmented in search for a logic and a harmony between spatial forms, social forms, and specific contexts. In this framework, it is very obvious that the beginning is a return to the procedures for the elaboration of the instruments of urbanism that constitute in themselves the support of any production of the management of the space.