Faire la ville et pratiques spatiales des habitants par le genre

Abstract

The urban fabric deserves to be questioned in its plurality. Indeed, it has been approached from the angle of planning urbanism and/or project urbanism. Although they have already been identified as research objects, their actors, tools, logic, doctrines, processes, etc. are constantly evolving, which justifies renewing their exploration. However, this planning or project urbanism coexists with urban fabrics whose processes and effects are less visible, less problematised and conceptualised. These less visible urban fabrics are partly constituted by the inhabitants action who make and unmake their space and their daily lives, and to which urban studies on extensions, new districts and new towns make very little reference. The gender approach in making cities is one of the less problematic and less explored research objects. The few works (of more than 25 years ago) that have reported on the reality of Algerian cities in terms of gender are no longer relevant, even if they persist in certain sectors of Algerian society. Today, it is widely accepted that women can go out, move around, work, and spend time outside the private sphere...under certain conditions. We have focused on the relationship between space and the women who make and produce the city, and those who inhabit and practice it. Quite simply, because for several years we have witnessed a differentiated relationship between men and women with produced and practised urban space. Our research is based on two categories of women. The themes of women's participation in the making of the city, as well as the analysis of women's appropriation practices and uses in the new Ali Mendjeli city, constitute the subject of this research. Today, Algerian women, once confined ""inside"" spaces, are massively ingressing into the spaces of their cities."