The document discusses the spatial development and urban transformation of colonial and post-colonial Algiers, Algeria. It explores six stages of the city's development from the Casbah quarter to the present, examining the influence of colonialization, post-independence socialist policies, economic challenges, and effects of globalization over time. The city experienced rapid growth under French colonial rule before gaining independence in 1962, and continues to face issues of overpopulation, inadequate housing, and balancing local and global influences on its urban planning.

1. Architecture in the Middle East 0690-421 – Fall 2009 Dr. Yasser Mahgoub

20. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Military Planning 1830 - 1840

22. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Military Planning 1830 - 1840

32. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Extramural Expansion and Urban Growth 1880 - 1914 Port I II III

36. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Transformations between the Two World Wars, and Rural Migration 1914 - 1945

40. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Transformations between the Two World Wars, and Rural Migration 1914 - 1945

41. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Transformations between the Two World Wars, and Rural Migration 1914 - 1945

42. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Transformations between the Two World Wars, and Rural Migration 1914 - 1945

49. Chapter 3: Algeria: Colonial Algiers: Housing Shortage and Bidonvilles 1945- 1962

57. Chapter 3: Algeria: Postcolonial Algiers: The Socialist Period: the 1970s

58. Chapter 3: Algeria: Postcolonial Algiers: The Socialist Period: the 1970s

59. Chapter 3: Algeria: Postcolonial Algiers: The Socialist Period: the 1970s

60. Chapter 3: Algeria: Postcolonial Algiers: The Socialist Period: the 1970s

61. Chapter 3: Algeria: Postcolonial Algiers: The Socialist Period: the 1970s

81. Future Algeria: Infrastructure US$11.2 billion Highway (2005-2010) will link with Morocco and Tunisia and will link Annaba, Constantine, Setif, Algiers, Oran and Tlemcen. Following the demographic explosion of the town of Algiers, a subway was considered at the end of the Seventies. Work began in 1983, but was slowed down because of financial difficulties and of the insecurity in the Nineties. The first phase will be ready at 2008-2009 Beni Haroun dam in Mila.

82. Future Algeria: Boughezoul City (2010) A gigantic city to shift several million people away from the overcrowded northern coastal zone. The government said it wants to re-house some three million people in Boughezoul to work in the "service sector, advanced technology and scientific research".

83. Future Algeria: Bab Ezzouar Business Quarter A modern urban development project with ideal communications (motorway, railway station, bus and tram station). The district also offers a 17 acre park. The site is not far from an 85 acre industrial zone, and includes a university campus with 40'000 students and numerous blocks of flats.

84. Future Algeria: Grand Mosque “ Highest Minaret in the world”, 300 meters high. As of 2008, the site is ready for construction

85. Future Algeria: Projects Oran Park Master Plan Project Algerian Petroleum Institute

91. New town of Hassi-Messaoud

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