Urban Changes, Land And Prospects For The City Of Laghouat’s Expansion.

Résumé: This paper is a response to the urbanization and social change’sdynamics which characterizes the desert’s cities, particularly in Laghouat, Algeria, has been known for more than half a century an accelerated and uncontrolled pace of development in the socio-economic field or in the urban fabric. It is an urban development, aiming at the city’smodernization. Several cities around the world have experienced rapid urban growth, coinciding with population growth, as well as the growing needs of the population of urban centers, which have become the engine of urbanization. While the Algerian Saharan space in recent decades has experienced changes in its urban morphologies accompanied by remarkable changes in social relations and practices, expressing a new form of urbanity. The process of urbanization in the Sahara is not recent. Its magnitude is pushing space planners and researchers to launch projects to reclaim these degraded sites and ksour dissipated in the most distant desert. The ksour and all the traditional habitat are beginning to lose their economic importance to become simple groups of residential dwellings. The vast and immense desert has experienced rapid conflicts of modern reappropriation which have affected its organization and its sustainability, values and traditional ways of life. Many of these ksour, medinas and desert towns have disappeared to be replaced by new cities. The new inhabitants from all over the country who have settled there have produced new behaviors and values, in order to create a new urbanity in the Sahara. As a result of the transformation and change in the characteristics of these desert cities, many of them have disappeared into silence following the appearance of new modern urban fabrics with an economic system and a new form of appropriation, at the detriment of these cities.

Publié dans la revue: مجلة بحوث الإدارة والاقتصاد