Stratégie urbaine en Algérie de 1830 à 1870 Entre génie militaire et génie civil.

Abstract

Algiers, this mixed city, which only identifies itself by doubles; an Arabic name, and a French name, suffered the conjunctures of a political context; tirelessly shaken by cultural and societal confrontations, over a temporality picked up since the nineteenth century. Conjunctures which are read in its formal materiality and its urbanity until now, submerged in a continuous cycle of demolitions and reconstructions. Which, planned or uncontrolled, has the sole result of transforming and compromising the relationship between man and his environment. In this research, which aims to contribute to the understanding of the different urban strategies that took part in the transformation of the city of Algiers during the first decades of French colonization namely from 1830 to 1870, we first propose an overview of the evolution of the history of colonial town planning in the fields of urban theory. This evolution is related to the beginning of a reflexion about the colonial city. Then we will restore, over three key periods, the formation and transformation of the city of Algiers in colonial situation. which was divided between military engineering and civil engineering; By studying its political and ideological context through the administrative organization of its colonial system, and by analyzing its urban development projects through their planning and implementation