Territorialisation par « ville nouvelle » au Maghreb

A kingdom of new cities: Morocco’s national Villes Nouvelles strategy

“…The description of Benguerir Green City's objective was, for example, to become a 'hotspot' to attract businesses and investment and as a strategy to 'unlock African potential ' (interview, 15 October 2018). Although this has still not been achieved, officials at the Al Omrane Group stated their aspiration for the company to be officially listed on the stock exchange, further outlining their corporate orientation for profitability through their urban development missions (Ballout, 2014).…”

“…However, this initiative was abandoned in 2007 by the Secretariat General of the Ministry of National Territorial Management without public explanation (Harroud, 2017a). In December 2012, a new law on new cities (Law 24-07) was proposed but never adopted (Ballout, 2014). constellations, and existing modes of everyday life' (Sawyer et al, 2021: 680).…”

“…While the legislative void and undefined nature of Morocco's city-building program has primarily been analyzed as a failure in state regulation and as a manifestation of 'profound dysfunctions in terms of planning and governance of urban spaces in Morocco' (Harroud, 2017b: 1), we suggest that the lack of clarity and transparency of the state's interventions in citybuilding operation could also stem from 'intentional vagueness' (Narins and Agnew, 2020: 829), sustained by the state to maintain a higher degree of flexibility and control over strategic new city-building projects and its mode of intervention in urban space. In the absence of supporting legislation, the Villes Nouvelles 'policy' more accurately embodies a strategic state discourse and rhetorical device that serves to legitimize the construction of urban mega-developments (Ballout, 2014) in the name of national development, and the modalities of state intervention to make new cities possible (Bhan, 2014;Goldman, 2011;Roy, 2009), including unpopular actions such as population displacement, expropriations, and the conversion of agricultural land in several new city projects (Berriane, 2017).…”

Urban Expansions for the New City of Ali Mendjeli: An other Strategy of Urban Management that Disregards Quality of Life in Algeria

“…No one can deny that housing is one of the primary issues of cities around the world (Ballout, 2021), but in Algeria it is of even greater importance to economic and social policies (Largat et al, 2022;Ballout, 2014;Zerrouki, 2015). The rural exodus, population growth, and social change have exacerbated the housing situation in this country (Belguidoum, 2021), hence exerting irrefutable pressures on the housing and building industry (Mazouz, 2013).…”

La ville nouvelle d’Ali Mendjeli à l’épreuve des modes d’habiter

“…Les recherches les plus récentes qui se sont intéressées aux formes de territorialisation se déployant dans la ville nouvelle d'Ali Mendjeli (Lakehal, 2013 ;Ballout, 2014) soulignent que la formation et la transformation de l'urbanité d'Ali Mendjeli expriment le grand décalage qui existe entre la ville offerte et la ville pratiquée, entre « la version idéelle et la version réelle » (Ballout, 2014) de cette expérience urbaine. Ce décalage, qui relève de ce que Semmoud appelle « la réception sociale de l'urbanisme » (Semmoud, 2007), atteste, sans nul doute, du poids des initiatives privées dans la fabrique d'Ali Mendjeli, en particulier celles des citadins ordinaires.…”