Tizi-Ouzou, birth and development of a city in a space mountain dweller of rural tradition: etiology of an urban failure

Abstract

The article examines the process of urbanization of the city of Tizi-Ouzou. It is a city created ex-nihilo by French colonization in a mountain area with a rural tradition. In view of the urban and architectural inconsistencies within it and the modes of appropriation of this space by the inhabitants, we deduce that this process was not a success. The visible conflicts between the space “given” by urban planning and the space “lived in” or wanted by the inhabitants betray this recent past of rural space. Our objective is to determine and analyze the factors involved in this urban failure. Assuming that these factors are multiple and diverse, we determine historical, geographical, political-ideological, economic and socio-cultural factors.