Résumé:
Through witnessing the life of a city, the main core always seems to grow prosperously at
first, until it reaches a certain degree where its resources are exhausted and can’t provide
nor invest in any future growing parts and that’s why we notice the edges of cities always
being outcasted compared to the city headquarters, as a result of this act, suburbs start
surfacing, by the citizens, in a detached and an unplanned behavior, causing imbalance to
the main system since the city ends up claiming it as a part of it is growing on its territory.
as the main core barely survives while the suburbs grow even further, the city loses its
definition as a unit and acts as broken fragments unable to manage the main core nor its
surrounding areas, which leads to the death of the city itself, a topic portrayed by jane
Jacobs in her book “the death and life of great American cities” which proves the heavy
weight this problem has brought to the table
The main objective of the work is to predict future agglomeration heads while making a
system that will link these tissues to allow the city to grow in a balanced, attached, and
healthy way
translated and represented in the shape of math equations and vectors which will facilitate
the conversion into computer coding language and its insertion into a software
As many have tried before to create an inflexible system dismissing the urbanist and
architect’s role, their impulses were rejected as the humanitarian impact; mainly the
constant change and time factor has not been taken into consideration.
The different approach of this initiative is that the habitants are to be portrayed as the main
characters, meaning creating a city that perfectly fits its own citizens as a glove and that
will allow every city to have its own unique pattern, shape, and look
This technique is yet to be called “the city’s own digital fingerprint’
It also keeps the city always updated on the changes occurring at every moment,
preventing the waste of effort and time traditional urbanists suffered from by the time the
city layout reaches the execution phase, but also plans out for the long-term efficiency of
the program.
Bou Saada like many other cities, has witnessed many attempts to resuscitate the city back
to life, unfortunately, it only increased the gap between the existing town and the future
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layout, even in the citizens’ speech we noticed them referring to the proper city as the old
town and the new constructions as the new city which was the number one sign that the
previous actions were absolute failures, nevertheless, the great increase in the
unemployment rate, the decrease in the water pressure and quantity running in the oasis
hence the death of the surrounding farming lands and the fast urbanization of a fertile area,
all of these facts required immediate intervention in order to prevent the death of a city that
was once appointed as the first capital of the country for the immense amount of potentials
that it held in it .
