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- Title
LONG TERM CITY DEVELOPMENT VERSUS WATER STRATEGY IN AL-MAGHREB.
- Authors
N., AROUA
- Abstract
It is commonly agreed that water availability critically influences the selection of sites for settlements and urban growth patterns. Nonetheless, this paper argues that it would be weakly involved in its later destiny. Its main objective is to discuss the issue in cities founded ex nihilo between the VIIth and XIth centuries over al-Maghreb based on an assessment of the water strategy efficiency, relevance, and consistency according to the hydrogeological context and the urban growth process. Qayrawan (VIIth century) from Tunisia, Fas (VIIIth century) from Morocco and Qalat Bani-Hamad (XIthc) from Algeria are formulated as demonstrative cases for this study. The results show that although those cities regularly faced extreme hydrometeorological hazards, their later development was constrained by acute political causes and economic changes over the Mediterranean region.
- Subjects
TUNISIA; ALGERIA; MOROCCO; URBAN growth; WATER supply; WATER efficiency; MUNICIPAL water supply; ECONOMIC change
- Publication
Larhyss Journal, 2022, Issue 50, p173
- ISSN
1112-3680
- Publication type
Article