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Title:The structure of the dependent city in North Africa
Author:Stambouli, Fredj
Year:1980
Periodical:African Environment: Environmental Studies and Regional Planning Bulletin
Volume:4
Issue:13
Pages:5-26
Language:English
Geographic term:Maghreb
Subjects:urban society
urbanization
Abstract:The urban system in the Maghreb today is an imbalance, externally-oriented system, incapable of totalisation or synthesis. The forces governing it largely escape its control, thus explaining its dependent and alienated character. Specific characteristics of the Maghrebian urban System are hypertrophies urban growth, incommensurate with real productive capacities, hypertrophy of the 'informal' urban sector, in contrast with a concentrated and mobile capitalist sector, and under integration of over half the urban dwellers. After describing immigration and urban growth in the Maghreb, and surveying studies of migrant society based on indices concerning housing, employment, incomes, health, education and culture, the author argues for the necessity of socio-anthropological analysis for a true understanding of migrant society, concluding with a case study of the 'dialectic of integration' which characterises the relation between inhabitant and state institution in Djebel Lahmar, Tunis' oldest and most densely populated shantytown. Graphs, ref., tab.
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