Couture urbaine / articulations entre micro-milieux

Abstract

If the success of the first section of the tramway line linking the city centre of Constantine to the Zouaghi district (southern entrance to the city) shows a high rate of frequentation and enthusiasm for a multitude of benefits (time, costs and comfort …), its extension promises desired sustainable urban mobility. It is clear that the mission of the tramway project, initiated as a structuring project for the Metropolis of Constantine, has been carried out intelligently between context and strategies. The expected extension, which will extend over nearly 18.5 kilometres, is an opportunity for its residents, particularly the student community. While reducing the number of buses used for transport, the 22 planned stations will inevitably generate and support other projects that will organise the present urban structure. This observation, which heralds an efficient service to the facilities, an opening up of all the districts along the route of the original Constantine/new town link and a dynamic landscape of the spaces crossed, encourages the city to pursue its transport development policy while ensuring the enhancement of the bordering spaces. This offering will be translated by the increase of mobility in public transport, the complementarity between the modes of transport, the embellishment of the routes of the tramway’s exclusive right of way, the optimisation of the urbanistic aspects by synchronous developments which will support an urban seam between the new city, the Constantine centre and their peripheral spaces. In response to the typology of the spaces crossed, the line’s route will be adapted and integrated in accordance with the landscape and functional aspects of the places. English title: Urban stitching/articulations between micro-media. Extension of the tramway line to the new city of Ali Mendjeli (Constantine)