CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Algeria is considered as a leader in adopting a modern and developed legislation in the field of modern real-estate. This legislation helped in the achievement of magnificent architecture and major public works as well as organizing in a modern way the expansion of urban areas. As it can be seen in the creation of French Quarters in many Algerian cities as, Algiers, Blida, Oran and Sidi Bel-Abbes in thus Algeria is regarded as a model in the success of colonial reconstruction. This legislation was distinguished by stating on documents including an integrated design of reconstruction, classification and zoning that lasts for forty years, this period was considered by the legislation at that time necessary to archive the designs and modernize the new cities sought to be done. However, the legislation was intended to bring an urban area that suits the European civilization and the Europeans especially otherwise the Algerian inhabitants didn’t get any mentioned interest as witnessed the architect Michel Ecochard.Under the pretext of protection of cultural heritage and ancient cities architecture, this latter didn’t benefit of the lowest draft for the growth of its scope to accommodate the demographic growth and that followed the colonization of Algeria. The two phenomena (ie) the urban demographic growth and rural migration showed the limits of this legislation to organize urban growth and anticipation of this overcrowding. Thus, the great old cities suffered a great deal from overcrowding since the early twenties. Meanwhile inadequate housing cells began to spread in the majority of Algerian cities.The term Slums « Shantytowns » has been used for the first time in Algeria, considering the materials used in order to build the houses. Moreover, the random housing began to spread in the early thirties. Since then, Algeria witnessed a rapid expansion that made the control and the organization of urban field impassible according to the rules of construction and development of property.