Territoire en Mouvement (Nov 2021)
La dérogation et ses impacts dans la fabrication du paysage urbain des villes maghrébines
Abstract
The implementation of the new Algiers development master plan PDAU adopted in 2016, is based on projects identified as structuring that have necessitated for many of them, the use of urban derogations as solutions to constraints encountered in the field during their realization. Given the importance of the number of these projects, the derogatory approach risks becoming more widespread and questioning the usefulness of the urban management regulatory instrument PDAU, which is enforceable against third parties. The revision of this instrument, whose timetable is 2035, required more than seven years of study and the mobilization of substantial financial and human resources. In order to be able to respond to this contradictory situation and to understand its implications for the formation of the Algiers urban landscape, we are interested in examples of the application of the urban derogation in three Maghreb’s countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The objective is to be able to identify the permissible limits for tolerance of this exceptional mode of urban and architectural production in order to preserve the coherence of the overall strategy development and planning
