URBAN PLANNING IN NORTH AFRICA
Urban Planning in North Africa
CARLOS NUNES SILVA
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
First published 2016
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Names: Silva, Carlos Nunes, editor.
Title: Urban planning in North Africa / [edited] by Carlos Nunes Silva.
Description: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2016] | Series:
Design and the built environment | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015043368| ISBN 9781472444844 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781472444868 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: City planning--Africa, North.
Classification: LCC HT169.A355 U734 2016 | DDC 307.1/2160961--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043368
ISBN 978-1-4724-4484-4 (hbk)
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Contents
Carlos Nunes Silva
Carlos Nunes Silva
Nora Lafi
Romeo Carabelli
Mara Cristina Garca Gonzlez and Salvador Guerrero Lpez
Pascale Philifert
Tahar Baouni
Nadia Chabi
Abderrahmane Diafat and Said Madani
Said Madani and Abderrahmane Diafat
Daniel E. Coslett
Romeo Carabelli
Mojca Smode Cvitanovi, Marina Smokvina and Branko Kincl
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
Gehan Selim
Cristina Pallini and Annalisa Riccarda Scaccabarozzi
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem is an architect and a senior lecturer of architecture at the University of Wolverhampton. He led design studios and taught architecture theory at Queens University, Belfast and the University of Sheffield, where he completed his PhD in Architecture. He was awarded the IASTE Biennales Jeffrey Cook Award (2014) for his scholarly research on Old Cairos traditional quarters. His research focuses on the investigation of socio-spatial processes of urban environments, the architecture of home, spatial memory, and the politics of urban space in everyday life. His books include Peripheries: Edge Conditions in Architecture (2012) (with Ruth Morrow), Portrush: Architecture for the North Irish Coast (2013), and The Architecture of Home in Cairo: Social-spatial Practice of the Hawaris Everyday Life (2015). Dr Abdelmonem has published numerous articles in the Journal of Architecture (JoA; 2012), Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning (Cities; 2015), Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR; 2012), Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture (JCEA; 2014, 2011).
Tahar Baouni, PhD, is Professor and Research Director at the Ecole Polytechnique dArchitecture et dUrbanisme (EPAU), Algiers. He has been the director of the research laboratory Ville, Urbanisme et Dveloppement Durable of EPAU and a member of the Scientific Council of EPAU since 2006, and was a member of the EPAU administrative council from 2009 to 2012. He was also chair on the scientific council of Institut Suprieur de Formation Ferroviaire (ISFF), Algiers from 2005 to 2009. Baouni was also an associated professor in the department of Geography and Spatial Planning at Bab Ezouar in Algiers from 1999 to 2011. He is a consultant to offices and agencies of urbanism and transport and has been responsible for numerous research projects in these fields. He was also a member of the administration council of the new town Sidi Abdellah, Algeria, 20132015. He has published widely on issues of transport planning, urbanism, and environment.
Romeo Carabelli, PhD, earned a degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, with a dissertation on the walled town of Tunis, a Masters and a PhD in Geography from the Universit Franois Rabelais, Tours, France, with a thesis on the process of transformation from ancient Portuguese inheritance to present-day cultural heritage: actors, facts and methods, titled: volution des vestiges portugais: quelle intgration dans le Maroc contemporain?. Carabelli is a researcher and training engineer at Citeres UMR 7324 CNRS and the University of Tours and a teacher at the Blois School of Landscape Design (ENSNP Blois). He is also an expert for the UNESCO programme The Heritage of Modernities in the Arab Countries. His activities focus on the (re)territorialization processes of colonial legacies, mainly with regard to contemporary configurations of scattered and multinational heritage. Carabelli designs and manages research and cooperation projects on the cultural heritage (architecture and landscape) of the Mediterranean area and the global South. He has published widely in international journals and books on issues of urban heritage in Northern Africa.
Nadia Chabi, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the University of Constantine 3, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, leader of the research project Urban Fabric: Phenomenon of the Non-City ZHUN Case of Constantine and Its New Town Ali Mendjeli certified in 2014 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Algeria a member of the Doctoral Training Committee LMD, and team leader in the research laboratory Architecture, Ville, Mtiers et Formation (AVMF) accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Algeria in 2012. Supervisor of magister degree and PhD students, Chabi teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of architecture, urban planning, and urban heritage. Her research interests focus mainly on the phenomenon of urbanization throughout history, traditional architecture and its social and urban organization, the conservation and restoration of the old city medina, colonial cities and their architecture and urban planning, and the recognition of the colonial built environment as Algerian national heritage. She is also working on new urban planning approaches, their urban and architectural principles, and their impact on the built environment. She has participated in several international seminars whose themes are related to heritage, urbanization, rural planning, and management of urban projects. She tries to collaborate and exchange experiences with researchers from foreign universities.
