City of M'sila: from Urban Attraction to Regional Center (Algeria)

Abstract

This study provides a spatial analysis approach to the urban framework of Hodna cities, especially; M'sila. It is logical to identify spatial deployment of the urban framework while explaining a fact often neglected land, by taking into account all forms of agglomeration and logic of actors (state, local governments traditional, people, etc.). The ultimate goal is to highlight the urban dynamics, whose M'sila has been the subject for forty years. The gradual emergence, in nearby countryside, logical urban economies and erasing, for their benefit, traditional forms of development of their areas, increased mobility between cities and countryside are all elements of this dynamic that it is necessary to take into account to better understand this new data. To achieve this goal, an important place is given to the multi-scale approach to address the dynamics in all their dimensions from the understanding of cities through time, events and cultures, as in traditional times, each society had a well-defined spatial, functional or social organization types. This paper concludes with a perspective of the future dynamics in general and on the city of M'sila in particular.
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