Takaddoum : un quartier périphérique de Rabat : étude géographique
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Abstract EN:
Takaddoum is a suburban district which was built by the authorities of the protectorate with the aim of eliminating slum areas. The scheme enters in what is called "the accommodation of the greatest number". Thirty years later, as in all forms of peripheral expansion, this area still resembles a large urban "douar" or slum, inhabited by the lower class, extremely dense in its construction and its population a number of problems rise from this situation : lack of infrastructure, degradation of the housing, noise; in a word a clear marginalization. Meanwhile this area is the living place of a population which is getting younger and younger, and which keeps demanding its right of citizenship through the improvement of its housing conditions. This area tries to get integrated in the city through the infrastructure. The study of the physical and human content shows a saturation of the suburban area. The rapidly changing commercial area shows as much precarity and dynamism as a tendancy towards an integration in the urban area. The utilization of the area in this district is limited to the day-to day activities : while the district is rejected by its inhabitants for its architecture, the use of services (work, shopping). This structurization of space resulted from both commuting and economic constraints.
Abstract FR:
Takaddoum est un quartier peripherique construit par les autorites du protectorat en vue de resorber les bidonvilles. Il entre dans ce qu'on appelle "l'habitat du grand nombre". Trente ans apres, comme toutes les formes de croissance peripheriques, ce quartier ressemble a un "gros douar urbain", habite par les couches populaires, extremement densifie dans son bati et sa population; de cette situation decoulent de nombreux problemes : insuffisance des equipements, degradation du bati, bruit; une marginalisation apparente en somme. Cependant cet espace est la residence d'une population de plus en plus jeune qui ne cesse de reclamer son droit de citadinite par l'amelioration des conditions, de l'habiter. A travers les equipements, cet espace essaye de s'integrer a la ville. L'analyse du contenu physique et humain demontre une saturation de cet espace peripherique. L'espace commercial en mutation rapide exprime autant precarite, dynamisme qu'une voie vers l'integration dans l'espace urbain. La pratique de l'espace au quartier est restreinte et familiere : le quartier etant rejete pour son cadre architectural alors que la pratique de la ville se limite aux espaces d'usage (travail et achats). Cette structuration de l'espace decoule aussi bien des contraintes de deplacements que celles economiques.