Abstract EN:

The Sustainable development is presently, one of the major priorities of urban issues. This inscription is related to the control of space, the sustainability of urban development, the preservation of biodiversity, the reduction of carbon balances, the controlled management’resources ..., Introducing sustainable development in urban problems impose to develop specific knowledge on the urban system, on societies, knowledge and knowledge conceptual capacities are part of a spatial and temporal dimension. Faced with the strong urban growth of the capitals of the Mediterranean cities on which Algiers is rebuilding a new image and which is going through profound changes. Algiers nowadays, is articulated between its Turkish and Moorish past, between the past and Western modernity of colonial periods, and a recent expansion resolutely turned towards modernism! With its exceptional density of population and economic activities, Algiers has since 2005, the maturation of the general policies of the environment and urbanism translated by the new approach of urban planning based on the urban projects, the urban graphics and the need for sorting out issues of the housing crisis as part of the preparation and implementation of new urban planning documents. The amplification of urban projects is faced to main challenges of sustainable urban development and is presently, a major concern of national authorities and urban planners, very preoccupied by grown beyond the excessive urban growth that is moving away from theprinciple of sustainable development against the sustainability of the territory.