Metropolisation or Macrocephaly? Algiers: At the Edge of the Tragedy

Mustapha Ben-Hamouche and Meriem Medjitna

Planning Practice & Research, 2021, vol. 36, issue 3, 352-369

Abstract: Two strategic plans for Algiers: SNAT 2030, and PDAU 2015–2035 that seek to enhance its competitiveness to keep pace with other Mediterranean cities have been approved. A metropolisation process, as it is politically called, that would market the capital through a series of megaprojects is taking place. Such a tendency paradoxically counteracts previous planning instructions that strived for the control of its spatial expansion and avoid the scenarios of other underdeveloped megacities. This study examines the urban and environmental costs of such a policy that would lead to an unmanageable megacity, and thus, draws this tragic scenario.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2020.1755103

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