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Déplacements et mutations spatiales à Alger

2019

Algiers port and city’s exceptional history is driven by its remarkable site nestled on a rocky spur. Revealed.Yet this morphology constrained the urban growth of a city that could pretend joigning the ranks of large metropolis. During its history port and city relationship took multiple forms, frequently compatible yet sometimes divergent and even opposed, leading to inversing domination status of both actors. Algiers capital of a 40 million inhabitants state, has always been a laboratory of urban politics since the colonial era to the institutional constructions of independent Algeria, regardless of deficient statistical tools. However, the space in Algiers is confronted to great challeng…