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Catastrophes naturelles et sociétés : la reconstruction de la ville de Chlef après le séïsme du 10 octobre 1980

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Jan. 1, 1992

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Pau

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Abstract EN:

The work that was undertaken in this thesis is mainly dealing with the spatial reconstruction of a town (clef, alegeria), 80% of which were destructed by an earthquake as regards the relations the poplation had with the space it used it used tolive the building of the town took the form of multipolar prefabricated blocks, far from the former urban network. This gave the stamp of willpoqer to the process of the rebuilding of the town that was not, moreover, without direct consequences upon the socio-spatial representation of the town. A new urban practice obviously developed and fowsed upon two areas : on the hand the new prefabicated blocks as a place of residence, on the other hand the former urban net work as a place of activity but also as a place for social maating and symbolical space. In such a system, some antagonism arose about the reappropriation of the spaces, particularly that of the central area, between the various actors of the town (the various people who look part in the rebuilding of the town) directly or indirectly involved in the preservation of the town's orginal site. Daily pratices and mental representations objectivise welldefined real spaces which symbolise the inhabitants' spatial identity and their attachment to their former town ever if it was damaged.

Abstract FR:

Le travail entrepris dans cette these se rapporte principalement a la restructuration spatiale d'une ville 'chlef, algerie) detruite a 80% par un seisme (le 10 10 1980) et a ses reombees sociales, notamment en ce qui concerne les rapports qu'entretenait la population avec son espace vecu. La reconstruction de la ville sous forme de cites prefabriquees multipolaires, loin de l'ancien tissu urbain, donna un cachet volontariste au processus de reconstruction de la ville qui n'a pas ete, d'ailleurs, sans consequences directes sur la representation socio-spatiale de la ville. Evidemment, une nouvelle pratique urbaine s'est developpee autour de deux poles, d'un cote, les nouvelles cites prefabriquees comme lieu de residence, et d'un autre cote, l'ancien tissu urbain comme lieu d'activite mais aussi lieu de rencontres sociales et espace symbolique. Dans un tel systeme, la reappropriation des espaces, notamment celle du quartier central, ne s'est pas faite sans antagonisme entre les differents acteurs de la ville impliques directement ou indirectement dans le maintien du site initial de leur cite. Des pratiques quotidiennes et des representaions ideelles objectiven des espaces reel bien definis qui symbolisent l'identite spatiale des habitant et attachement a leur ancienne ville, endommagee