Abstract:
The urban fabric deserves to be questioned in its plurality. Indeed, it has been approached from
the angle of planning urbanism and/or project urbanism. Although they have already been
identified as research objects, their actors, tools, logic, doctrines, processes, etc. are constantly
evolving, which justifies renewing their exploration. However, this planning or project
urbanism coexists with urban fabrics whose processes and effects are less visible, less
problematised and conceptualised.
These less visible urban fabrics are partly constituted by the inhabitants action who make and
unmake their space and their daily lives, and to which urban studies on extensions, new districts
and new towns make very little reference. The gender approach in making cities is one of the
less problematic and less explored research objects.
The few works (of more than 25 years ago) that have reported on the reality of Algerian cities
in terms of gender are no longer relevant, even if they persist in certain sectors of Algerian
society. Today, it is widely accepted that women can go out, move around, work, and spend
time outside the private sphere...under certain conditions.
We have focused on the relationship between space and the women who make and produce the
city, and those who inhabit and practice it. Quite simply, because for several years we have
witnessed a differentiated relationship between men and women with produced and practised
urban space.
Our research is based on two categories of women. The themes of women's participation in the
making of the city, as well as the analysis of women's appropriation practices and uses in the
new Ali Mendjeli city, constitute the subject of this research. Today, Algerian women, once
confined ""inside"" spaces, are massively ingressing into the spaces of their cities."
