Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 5(2), pp. 52 - 60
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2017.050202
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Urban Projects to Prefigure the Sustainable City -- Case: the City of Ain Beida (Algeria)

Foued Benghadbane ^*, Fatima Zohra Berkani
Institute of Urban Techniques Management, University of Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria

ABSTRACT

Algerian cities suffer from multiple problems, which directly had influence in blocking the realization of the sustainable urban development and made it a significant challenge faced by many studies and researches especially urban projects that have become the modern tools of urban planning and which take into consideration the sustainable urban development dimensions within its basic guidance. Field practice of urban planning has proven that theoretical studies and political strategies cannot achieve the required sustainability, because it needs to activate the principle of people's participation and partnership between different actors during planning required urban projects, without neglecting the leading role played by the decision-makers, and that needs more rationalization to achieve good urban governance, which is the primary objective of urban project. In this context, the aim of this study is to provide the mechanisms that help to create sustainable and locale made urban projects, compatible with the natural, cultural and social characteristics of the Algerian cities taking the city of Ain Beida in the Algerian east area to apply this study, by placing a comprehensive systematic approach that combines urban sustainability problems of the city with the proposed solutions, through urban projects to monitor the ambitions of the population in the planning of their city, which would promote the city of Ain Beida to the class of sustainable city with optimum and rational exploitation of technologies and the available sophisticated means, and to stop the import of ready-made Western solutions, which is the main reason for the today's Algerian cities problems.

KEYWORDS
Urban Project, Sustainable Urban Development, Participation, Good Governance, the City of Ain Beida, Algeria

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Foued Benghadbane , Fatima Zohra Berkani , "Urban Projects to Prefigure the Sustainable City -- Case: the City of Ain Beida (Algeria)," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 52 - 60, 2017. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2017.050202.

(b). APA Format:
Foued Benghadbane , Fatima Zohra Berkani (2017). Urban Projects to Prefigure the Sustainable City -- Case: the City of Ain Beida (Algeria). Civil Engineering and Architecture, 5(2), 52 - 60. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2017.050202.