Requalification de la rue du palais de justice, haute Casbah de Constantine. Projet : Maison de l’artisanat.

Abstract

Today the patrimony is a more fragile and threatened complex reality than ever, which from now on has an important role in the life and the development of societies; becoming aware of the dangers which watch for this heritage incites us to preserve it for future generations. Through this legacy, which from immemorial time, constituted a remarkable urban fact, we tried to consider the question of its place in the Algerian urban policies. This objective could be achieved only with the development of the patrimonial policy at the local and national level, while taking as case study the old town of Constantine recently set up in safeguarded sector owing to the fact that it is rich of an exemplary inheritance and to analyze all the ranges of the difficulties of application of the Algerian devices in favor of the inheritance. The remote and principal objective was getting a general reflection about the inheritance safeguard, where the singularity of the urban inheritance is reinforced. At the first time, it is through the legislative and regulatory or inciting tools available to Algeria that we examined the step of incentive to the safeguard, highlight and development of this wealth. Its weight becoming more and more heavy, thus the powerless of the government to assume alone such a load emerges gradually with that multiplying measures weighing on this one, at the current time marked by a remarkable evolution of mentalities, needs and techniques; what constrained the government to yield always more the responsibility to the local actors. However, the complexity and the rigor of a legislative and regulatory unlimited device, transform the question of the inheritance into a conflicts field between the various public or private actors. The analysis of the patrimonial situation revealed us that if the stages of diagnoses and development of the proposals attest truly renewed approaches, the means of the setting in work remain ambiguous, insufficient or practically non-existent and it is about them that it is necessary to pay the maximum of attention. Therefore, it is only within the framework of a collective work coordinating the action of the local authorities, the representatives of many disciplines concerned and the inhabitants, that the inheritance can have its true place in the city development, and that the conservation of the inheritance will be placed on the level of its true cultural and economic importance, for such an inheritance should not be regarded as a load but as a luck, because they are these procedures and this common will which will allow the survival of our declining Medina and which must obligatorily pass by the use of their architectural heritage.