Savoirs citoyens et processus de patrimonialisation en centre urbain ancien

Abstract

The thesis focuses on the capacity of public action to renew heritage practices in old urban centers. The objective is to understand the links between heritage and citizen participation. The research proposes to retrace the concrete processes of heritage development in the old city centers of Dellys and Oran. The process of heritage development was accompanied by participatory approaches with different dynamics, suggesting the emergence of a new, more collaborative form of heritage action. The participative process in Dellys was initiated by the public authorities within the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Montada project. In Oran, the participatory dynamics of the Bottom up type is essentially led by two associations: Santé Sidi El Houari and Bel Horizon. Our study allows us to understand the different positions of the actors in front of the heritage, the referential of participative actions and the modalities of their implementation in order to understand in what way the participation constitutes a reading grid of the issues carried by the population of the old centers. This work enable us also to point out the effects of participation on the local heritage fabric in order to diversify the sources of expertise, thus calling on new types of knowledge carried by the inhabitants.