Appropriations and Uses of Urban Spaces in Northern Algeria
This article, written from an Algerian perspective, analyzes and interprets current practises involving the appropriation and use of urban spaces, with specific emphasis on lifestyle and the relationships between public space and private space. These practices are materialized in the adaptation of habitat to inhabitant needs, several encroachments on public space and the flouting of official norms. At the same time, they are the concrete expression of cultural values and residential and economic patterns whose purpose is to provide a means of access to the so-called universal urban model.