Urban Renewal in Constantine between Strengthening of Local Identity and Metropolitan Standardization Case of Public Spaces in the Urban Sector SIDI RACHED

Abstract

Urban renewal in Constantine guided by the Constantine metropolis modernization project aims to strengthen its status as a metropolis dominating eastern Algeria; through giving it the necessary attributes to establish the status of a metropolis while trying to preserve its local identity. this inevitably involves work on public spaces. The ultimate goal of this study is to analyse the unique identity of these publics spaces through their components elements and attributes while focusing on urban furniture and urban vegetation cover based on BENTELEY & Al's approach as well as that of BY DESIGN, the comparison with that of the international standards of a metropolis will allow us to identify the contrast existing between local identity and foreign metropolitan attributes.