Ali Mendjeli, Algeria, Africa
Year 1988 latitude: 36° 14' longitude: 6° 34' Period Initiator(s) Government of Algeria, Wali de la Wilaya de Constantine Planning organization Office of local studies URBACO (ex CADAT) Nationality initiator(s) Algerian Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 200,000 Target population 335,000 Town website Town related links http://www.joradp.dz/Jo2000/2000/049/FP8.pdf http://www.joradp.dz/Jo2000/2014/019/FP10.pdf http://www.photofolle.net/ali-mendjeli-la-nouvelle-ville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loD9jt8Nnoo http://bu.umc.edu.dz/theses/sc-terre/KAS4812.pdf http://anneemaghreb.revues.org/2363#ftn1 http://www.elmouwatin.dz/IMG/article_PDF/article_a3759.pdf https://emam.revues.org/1226 Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
source: http://www.photofolle.net /ali-mendjeli-la-nouvelle -ville/ source: http://www.photofolle.net /ali-mendjeli-la-nouvelle -ville/ source: http://www.photofolle.net /ali-mendjeli-la-nouvelle -ville/ source: http://www.photofolle.net /ali-mendjeli-la-nouvelle -ville/ source: http://www.photofolle.net /ali-mendjeli-la-nouvelle -ville/ source: http://www.photofolle.net /ali-mendjeli-la-nouvelle -ville/ The decision to plan the new town of Ali Mendjeli came with the intent to solve the housing and congestion problems related to the city of Constantine and its satellites towns and ensure a more balanced spatial distribution of the inhabitants. The original plan, drawn up by URBACO at the beginning of the 90s, comply with the principles of safety, accessibility, attraction and progressive development. It should respond to the need for flexibility, creating road network and strategic land use able to guarantee a number of alternatives and the possibilities of location of future facilities and residential developments. Concretely the proposed structure of the city has a compact form. Moreover the process of its realization was not free of troubles, going through periods of rapid development but also long pauses. Unfortunately the new town could not fulfill the legitimate expectations of its inhabitants: to settle down its population it would have created jobs and long term investment in order be attractive new and productive. Nowadays the town of Ali Mendjeli struggles with the image of a city characterized by a poor aesthetic value and a scarce maintenance of monotonous buildings, looking like a large set of hotels, reserved for all those who, during the day, live elsewhere. source: INTI
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