Cities and Urbanity in the Maghreb

Urban realities are at the heart of changes transforming the Maghreb. Over only a few decades urbanization has been massive, rapid and sometimes even brutal, profoundly disrupting lifestyles and social structures. Itself a product of social transformations, urbanization in turn produces its own soci...

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Published inL'année du Maghreb Vol. 12; pp. 11 - 32
Main Authors Belguidoum, Saïd, Cattedra, Raffaele, Iraki, Aziz
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published CNRS Éditions 2015
Subjects
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sociology
Maghreb
Cities
Année du Maghreb
2015
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Summary:Urban realities are at the heart of changes transforming the Maghreb. Over only a few decades urbanization has been massive, rapid and sometimes even brutal, profoundly disrupting lifestyles and social structures. Itself a product of social transformations, urbanization in turn produces its own social changes. The cities of the Maghreb are not homogeneous. They are in fact, characterized by great diversity: diversity among the countries of the Maghreb, diversity among the cities within each c...
ISSN:1952-8108
2109-9405
DOI:10.4000/anneemaghreb.2510