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Towards an unreasoned town planning, case of the new
town of Ali Mendjli.
Djamel DEKOUMI 1, Mokhtar MAKHLOUF 2.
1; 2Dr. Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Constantine 3,
E-mail: dj.dekoumi@gmail.com;E-mail: makhloufmokhtar2001@yahoo.fr
Abstract:
After results of unrestrained intervention
of man on his environment, research is
focusing increasingly on the latter. This
interest is reflected in a broad debate among
specialists: landscapers, ecologists,
architects, planners, developers, managers,
and among politicians and finally among
citizens. In fact everything about the man and
his environment is everyone's business.
However, we professionals (architects,
planners, urban planners ...) daily produce,
transform ..., the environment by the many
decisions we make to try as possible to give it
the image we want. Unfortunately,
premeditated or not, the answer is in our
cities and our countryside...
Key words: new town, urban
planning, environment planning,
Constantine.
Introduction
Since that man exists, he constantly
transformed the space and the surrounding
environment. These human interventions are
relatively limited to the daily planning acts
that have generated cities and countryside that
are, the least that we can say, anonymous,
with no identities and difficult to manage.
Thus, urban planning which has on the one
hand its theses, its postulates and on the other
hand, its foundations, gestures, enterprises
that communicate with the society as does
every language, displays a sufficiency
regarding the use of the territory while
keeping the specificities of the different
regions and sites.
By a look around us, we can only note that
there is a real divorce between the
intervention of man and the environment.
Therefore, to limit the damage, another
discipline should be necessary, that of the
environment, in all its aspects, urban, rural or
natural. It actually reflects the society of
which it is "the mirror". It expresses in a
given time, a physical and symbolic reality of
successive actions of man over nature. The
environment "as a physical element, as a
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perception generator and source of sense, as a
state caused by a multiplicity of factors, the
environment as an art to develop and build".
[1]
2 - Analysis
In Algeria urban, rural and even natural
environments are in full transformation
mainly due to socio-economic changes and
even policies that continue its way out and
very deep in the territory which is considered
to be still virgin over which all the
experiences and excesses are possible. As
such, the imprint of the
human is there to witness the destruction of
the symbiotic relationship that has always
existed between the environment and man.
This latter leads us in fact, right to "a sort of
disfigurement and loss of cultural identity".
[2]
Therefore, the tribute we pay to modernity
weighs even more.
Photo 1: Urban desert! Photo 2: Visual urban chaos!
Thus, international models imported by a
centralized policy decisions, became the
preferred reference style that the authorities
have adopted. This is how architectural and
urban creations are more and more
characterized by standardization and
normalization of imported projects without
taking into account the specificities of our
society and especially those of the site. The
planned space extends while chasing
spontaneity, life instincts and desires that
characterized the building mode of our
ancestors who were able to cope and live in
harmony with nature. Highly integrated with
its environment, traditional architecture has
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often served as an example to the greatest
architects.
Photo 3: A harmony with the site Photo 4: Perfect integration with natural site
Is it possible to build anything, anywhere and
allow the concrete to invade
everything, our cities, our countryside...?
Photo 3: Unplanned urban spaces. Photo 4: Immediate reaction of an aggressed
nature.
The proliferation of "concrete boxes"
undeveloped outdoor areas and therefore
unused on one side and the slums on the
other, represents the most frequent
aggressions from which our environment is
suffering, constantly breaking the oldest
relationship in the world and most natural that
exists between man and his environment.
Induced demographic motor accompanied
later on by an administrative promotion
(allocation of urban functions, investments,
etc.), the urbanization process is at the
expense of the people and their living space
including rural areas which main activity is
agriculture. This has led and still leads to a
bleeding of marginal areas.
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