Although urban heritage has been a research field in the focus of scholars’ attention since the concepts of restoration and rehabilitation of monuments had been extended to entire areas such as historical city centres, before the mid‐twentieth century, architectural studies approached towns only through individual historical monuments, and historical studies only through juridical, political, and religious institutions or economic and social structures. In consequence, urban space as the manifestation of the urban phenomenon in its complexity has been largely ignored by the practice of urban conservation. This thesis aims to be a theoretical approach to the field of urban conservation, revealing its place at the crossing of history, architecture, urbanism, geography, philosophy, and anthropology. The creation of place, its understanding, the meaning that places hold for human identity and the way they shape us in return. The basis of such an enquiry is set by looking at attitudes towards the historic fabric over time and the origins of the notion of ‘urban conservation’ in its European context. The concentration of economic, social and cultural exchanges over long periods of time, which characterises traditional urban cultures, gives the value of historical areas in towns. Therefore, the history of urban development provides a substantial contribution towards the protection, conservation, and restoration policy of historic towns and urban areas as well as towards their development and adaptation to contemporary life. The term ‘integrated conservation’ emerged as a response to these changes in conservation’s relationship to heritage and its context. This broadened image of heritage enables a better understanding of how human activity has shaped the urban fabric and of how conservation can be perceived today as a component of management of urban change. This raises a number of theoretical and methodological issues, which are discussed in detail in this thesis: how do we understand the historic urban areas and how do we elicit their cultural values in order to protect and use these values. This research is therefore concerned with the origin and nature of ideas relevant to urban conservation, rather than with what is commonly regarded as being a prescriptive doctrine in heritage conservation generally, and indeed urban conservation. In reality, this latter view of the theoretical and philosophical body of research in conservation is hindering its theoretical development as a discipline and has an undesired, stalling effect on practice development. This is why this research aims to provide tools for thinking about specific conservation issues, not self‐sufficient theories. The references span a very wide timescale because of the inherent preoccupation of humans with their own inhabiting of the world, which is ultimately the frame in which urban settlements are inscribed.

Le quartier du XIXe siècle de Wuhan, situé dans l’ancienne ville de Hankou, s’est formé pendant l’ouverture commerciale de la Chine dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, au moment où les concessions étrangères ont été installées dans la ville. A l’époque, le quartier se distingue par son urbanisation moderne et son architecture résultant d’un métissage entre les influences orientales et occidentales. Il fût construit sans planification globale et a su montrer, tout au long de son histoire, une force de réception des cultures extérieures et une capacité de transformation sans pour autant perdre son identité locale traditionnelle.Cependant, au début du XXIe siècle, ce quartier historique de Wuhan est dans une situation de déclin, confronté à la métropolisation rapide de la ville. La ville se lance ainsi dans une stratégie de « mise en réseau » dans le but de redynamiser les vieux quartiers centraux. Dans cette perspective, le projet de réhabilitation «Wuhan Tiandi » voit le jour et s’articule autour d’une station de transport multimodale, implantée au coeur du quartier du XIXe siècle. L’ancien quartier est transformé en une zone touristique et commerciale moderne et son réseau de ruelles traditionnelles est intégré au réseau de transport métropolitain.La problématique de cette thèse est élaborée autour de ce projet de réhabilitation : quels sont les effets de ce projet de réhabilitation urbaine sur ce quartier patrimonial de Wuhan ? Quel est le rôle joué par ce projet dans le processus de métropolisation de cette ville chinoise de second rang ? En répondant à ces questions, la thèse montre la relation indissociable entre les projets de réhabilitation et la métropolisation de Wuhan. La thèse cherche aussi à révéler l’urbanisme pragmatique et dirigiste de la Chine : d’une part, la façon de sauvegarder le patrimoine urbain dépendant de l’intérêt du marché, de l’autre, l’effet déterminant des acteurs des projets, dont les plus importants sont l’Etat et les gouvernements locaux. / The nineteenth century district of Wuhan, located in the ancient city of Hankou, has been formed during China's trade openness in the second half of the XIXth century, when foreign concessions have been settled in the city. At the time, the district is distinguished by its modern architecture and urbanization resulting from a blending of Eastern and Western influences. Built without overall planning, it has demonstrated throughout its history a strength of reception of external cultures and a capacity for transformation without losing its traditional local identity.However, in the early twenty-first century, the historic district of Wuhan is in a declining situation, faced with the rapid metropolisation of the city. Local authorities launch a "networking" strategy in order to revitalize the old central districts. In this perspective, the rehabilitation project "Wuhan Tiandi" was born and revolves around a multimodal transportation station, located in the heart of the nineteenth century district. The old neighborhood has turned into a modern touristic and commercial area and its network of traditional streets is integrated to the metropolitan transport network.The issue of this thesis is built around this rehabilitation project : What are the effects of this urban regeneration project on the heritage district of Wuhan? What is the role of this project in the metropolisation process of this Chinese second-rank city? By answering these questions, the thesis shows the inseparable relationship between rehabilitation projects and the metropolisation of Wuhan. The thesis also seeks to reveal the pragmatic and interventionist posture of urban planning in China. Certainly, the way to safeguard the urban heritage depends on the interests of the market, but the most important actors of the projects are the State and the local governments.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-10-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T21:05:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 castro_cra_dr_rcla.pdf: 3775849 bytes, checksum: 864c36a75ded7de205c1e5a5248ea1a6 (MD5) / O processo de organização do espaço urbano é produto das maneiras como os grupos sociais se identificam com o meio físico e dele se apropriam ao longo da história. Uma vez que consiste na expressão material dos padrões culturais e da identidade coletiva, o patrimônio urbano da cidade armazena em si marcas das diferentes temporalidades de sua existência, documentando os processos que contribuíram para a construção da memória social. Isto significa que à medida que passa a participar dos processos de organização estrutural da cidade cada elemento morfológico revela a história de uma época, estilo, idéia e ainda, traz consigo um modo de produzir a vida em sociedade. Assim, este trabalho consiste numa abordagem crítica dos processos de estruturação urbana, definição da forma e construção da imagem da cidade de Londrina, Estado do Paraná. Adotando como parâmetro de análise o produto de uma reflexão histórica, foram analisadas as trajetórias da constituição e transformação da estrutura de Londrina, bem como da construção de sua configuração. Isto permitiu a identificação e a análise do papel dos principais elementos que estruturam, dão forma a sua arquitetura, aos seus espaços e suas paisagens e ainda são referências na construção de sua imagem. Também foram objetos de análise as maneiras pelas quais, ao longo de sua existência a cidade foi incorporando as características urbanísticas de suas ancestrais e, além disso, os modos pelos quais as transformações morfológicas vêm conferindo identidade a sua paisagem e participando da construção da memória coletiva. / The process of urban space organization is a product of the ways how social groups identify with the physical environment and make it their own along history. Since it consists in the material expression of cultural standards and collective identity, a town's urban heritage retains marks of the different temporalities of her existence, hence recording the processes that have contributed to the construction of social memory. This means that, once it participates in the processes of structural organization of the town, each morphologic component reveals the history of a period, style, idea, and conveys a mode of producing life in society. Hence, this study comprises a critical approach of the urban organization processes, definition of the form and construction of the image of Londrina, Paraná State. Adopting as analysis parameter the product of historical considerations, the trajectories of both the construction and transformation of the organization of Londrina and the construction of her configuration have been analyzed. Such has allowed the identification and analysis of the role of the main components that structure and shape her architecture, spaces and landscapes, and are references in the construction of her image. The ways how, along her existence, the city has incorporated the urban characteristics of her forefathers and, beyond that, the manners by which morphological transformations confer identity to her landscape and participate in the construction of collective memory have also been subject to analysis.

Orientador: Lívia de Oliveira / Banca: Angelo Martins de Souza Junior / Banca: Rosio Fernandez Baca Salcedo / Banca: Antonio Carlos Zani / Banca: Auro Aparecido Mendes / Resumo: O processo de organização do espaço urbano é produto das maneiras como os grupos sociais se identificam com o meio físico e dele se apropriam ao longo da história. Uma vez que consiste na expressão material dos padrões culturais e da identidade coletiva, o patrimônio urbano da cidade armazena em si marcas das diferentes temporalidades de sua existência, documentando os processos que contribuíram para a construção da memória social. Isto significa que à medida que passa a participar dos processos de organização estrutural da cidade cada elemento morfológico revela a história de uma época, estilo, idéia e ainda, traz consigo um modo de produzir a vida em sociedade. Assim, este trabalho consiste numa abordagem crítica dos processos de estruturação urbana, definição da forma e construção da imagem da cidade de Londrina, Estado do Paraná. Adotando como parâmetro de análise o produto de uma reflexão histórica, foram analisadas as trajetórias da constituição e transformação da estrutura de Londrina, bem como da construção de sua configuração. Isto permitiu a identificação e a análise do papel dos principais elementos que estruturam, dão forma a sua arquitetura, aos seus espaços e suas paisagens e ainda são referências na construção de sua imagem. Também foram objetos de análise as maneiras pelas quais, ao longo de sua existência a cidade foi incorporando as características urbanísticas de suas ancestrais e, além disso, os modos pelos quais as transformações morfológicas vêm conferindo identidade a sua paisagem e participando da construção da memória coletiva. / Abstract: The process of urban space organization is a product of the ways how social groups identify with the physical environment and make it their own along history. Since it consists in the material expression of cultural standards and collective identity, a town's urban heritage retains marks of the different temporalities of her existence, hence recording the processes that have contributed to the construction of social memory. This means that, once it participates in the processes of structural organization of the town, each morphologic component reveals the history of a period, style, idea, and conveys a mode of producing life in society. Hence, this study comprises a critical approach of the urban organization processes, definition of the form and construction of the image of Londrina, Paraná State. Adopting as analysis parameter the product of historical considerations, the trajectories of both the construction and transformation of the organization of Londrina and the construction of her configuration have been analyzed. Such has allowed the identification and analysis of the role of the main components that structure and shape her architecture, spaces and landscapes, and are references in the construction of her image. The ways how, along her existence, the city has incorporated the urban characteristics of her forefathers and, beyond that, the manners by which morphological transformations confer identity to her landscape and participate in the construction of collective memory have also been subject to analysis. / Doutor

Johannesburg is by international standards, a young city. Yet in its brief existence, just under 120 years, it has exploded from a mining camp into a metropolis - The economic capitol of both South and Sub Saharan Africa (Johannesburg Development Agency, www.jda.co.za). The rapid, and in most cases, poorly planned development of the city has resulted in the destruction of many of the city's heritage resources. Today historical buildings and historical areas exist side by side with contemporary office and residential tower blocks - juxtaposing the city’s past and present in the constant struggle for new space for development and densification. Past and present exist simultaneously, if not always harmoniously - a collision in space and time. / Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / unrestricted

L’analyse des processus qui définissent la durabilité urbaine est au centre du débat actuel concernant le développement futur des villes. Dans ce contexte général que nous définissons de " course à la durabilité ", la ville historique se trouve simultanément confrontée à deux impératifs majeurs : d’un côté assurer la réalisation des objectifs du développement durable, de l’autre assurer la protection du patrimoine urbain.À partir de ces éléments, la thèse interroge la relation entre développement durable et protection du patrimoine urbain, à la fois d’un point de vue théorique et pratique, en posant la question de recherche suivante : dans quelle mesure la ville historique peut-elle devenir une ville durable tout en sauvegardant son patrimoine ? La recherche se divise en trois parties : une première partie consacrée aux aspects théoriques et épistémologiques, ayant pour but d’organiser et de rendre convergente la production scientifique actuelle, abondante mais sectorielle, de ces deux impératifs ; une deuxième partie de transposition du débat théorique international au contexte français, qui nous a permis d’évaluer la possibilité d’intégration des politiques de durabilité et de protection du patrimoine ; enfin, une troisième partie, plus opérationnelle, qui explore nos questionnements et hypothèses par l’étude détaillée de trois cas parisiens emblématiques. En démontrant que la durabilité est appelée à modifier les équilibres de la protection du patrimoine urbain, la thèse propose des éléments de réponse pour que ces deux impératifs puissent s’articuler et être mieux intégrés dans les politiques urbaines des villes historiques. / Over the past few decades sustainability concerns have gained central importance in the contemporary debate about the future development of cities. In this worldwide context a particular category of cities is suffering from pressures never seen before: the historic urban landscape, where urban conservation strategies must be integrated within the larger goals of overall sustainable development.In this frame, certain questions emerge: is it possible that sustainable development aims coexist with the principles of urban heritage preservation? What could it be the connection between urban heritage and sustainable development? How urban conservation can open up to sustainability, while keeping intact tangible and intangible values and heritage?Recognizing sustainability as a primary challenge that urban conservation faces, the thesis is divided in three parts: the first part is dedicated to the literature review, in order to converge the actual scientific production, abundant but sectorial; starting from an international perspective, the second part focuses on the French case study, reviewing the influence of national legislation concerning planning and environment, which includes sustainability aims, on urban conservation tools; lastly, the third part analyses critically the case study of Paris, emblematic to demonstrate the possible adaptation of urban conservation tools in order to take into account sustainability aims.The research finds that an integrated approach appears to be necessary, both at theoretical and operative level, and some first stage answers had been provided in this direction.

As intervenções em antigos sítios industriais geralmente são guiadas pela caracterização desses espaços como reservas de terreno disponível para novos usos, a despeito de suas preexistências históricas, estéticas e memoriais. A partir dessa constatação, a presente pesquisa discute a aplicabilidade dos princípios teóricos da preservação e do restauro na prática de intervenções no patrimônio urbano industrial. Na primeira parte do estudo, são evidenciados os percursos investigativos e cognitivos que concorreram para o amadurecimento de conceitos, teorias e princípios em torno da preservação e do restauro do patrimônio urbano. Na segunda parte, são abordados os principais problemas enfrentados no tratamento dos sítios industriais de interesse cultural e analisados alguns casos de intervenção, com o intuito de discutir os motivos que dificultam a aplicação prática dos princípios anteriormente evidenciados e sugerir caminhos para a condução criteriosa de futuros projetos, a exemplo da Operação Urbana Diagonal Sul, em São Paulo. / Interventions in urban industrial heritage with cultural interest usually are made under the wrong assumption that those spaces are characterized as spare ground available for new uses, in spite of their historical, aesthetic and memorial pre-existence. From that fact, this research discuss the appliance of the theoretical principles of preservation and restoration in the practice of intervention in this heritage. The first part of this study shows the investigative and cognitive ways that concurred to the developing of concepts, theories and principles surrounding restoration and preservation of urban heritage. The second part takes on the major existing problems when dealing with industrial sites and analyses some intervention cases, in order to discuss the reasons that make difficult the appliance of the previously showed principles, and also suggests ways of achieving criteria for the conduct of future projects, like the urban project Diagonal Sul, in São Paulo, Brazil.

O distrito de Bonfim Paulista localizado próximo à cidade de Ribeirão Preto, no estado de São Paulo, nasce no final do século XIX a partir da implantação de uma estação da estrada de ferro da Cia Mogiana. Razoavelmente preservado em vários de seus aspectos arquitetônicos, urbanos e ambientais tem sido objeto há alguns anos de planos e ações provenientes de diversos setores da sociedade voltadas à proteção e revitalização de seu patrimônio. Esse trabalho visa mapear convergências e divergências desse conjunto variado de propostas de intervenção por parte de estudantes, arquitetos e urbanistas provenientes de instituições de ensino e pesquisa, órgãos públicos e iniciativa privada. Nelas podemos identificar, entre outras coisas, a preocupação com a crescente transformação das áreas rurais adjacentes à vila, onde condomínios residenciais horizontais fechados voltados para classes de alto poder aquisitivo parecem provocar mudanças importantes de hábitos e valores tradicionais do núcleo urbano. Como poderá ser visto ao longo desse trabalho as propostas guardam entre si consensos e dissensos: se atores ligados ao poder público, à academia e a iniciativa privada compartilham a percepção de que Bonfim é um lugar que pede uma intervenção, um projeto, uma postura, pois há ali valores a serem resgatados ou mantidos, os moradores e usuários locais divergem quanto aos objetos e princípios dessa intervenção. Assim as soluções propostas para os problemas da vila variam na mesma medida em que variam as leituras da área e os interesses que informam tais leituras. Refletir sobre essas diversas percepções é também repensar sobre os pressupostos que o conceito de requalificação urbana apresenta contemporaneamente. / The Bonfim Paulista district is located near Ribeirão Preto city in São Paulo state, servant in the final of XIX century through the implantation of a train station belonging to the Mogiana INC. Reasonably preserved in many of their architectural, urban and environmental aspects, the village has been used as an object of plans and actions originating from different areas of the society forward-looking the protection and revitalization of its heritage. This thesis intends to map convergences and divergences about these various sets of intervention proposals originating from students, architects and planners arising from universities, research centers, public agency and private initiative. In all of them it was possible to identify, among other things, an important phenomenon: the rural areas near around the village are being hardly occupied by horizontal closed condominiums built for high purchasing classes and it seems to cause important changes in the villages traditional habits and values. As we will can see in this work, the proposals have consensus and conflicts: if people linked to the public agency, university and private initiative share the perception that Bonfim is a place that asks for an intervention, on the other hand, residents and local users diverge about the objects and principles of this intervention. The solutions proposed for the village´s problems vary as the same way different views and perceptions about the area. Then we intend with this work to reflect about these different perceptions and rethink about the assumptions of contemporary urban renewals proposed in these cases.

A pesquisa busca avaliar possíveis relações entre o projeto arquitetônico e o restauro de bens culturais. Tendo em vista que esse leque de relações é bastante amplo, procurou-se delimitar o estudo à atuação de dois arquitetos contemporâneos que tenham optado pela aproximação dos critérios de projeto com a análise das preexistências e a observação da cidade histórica. Dentro desse universo foram escolhidos Aldo Rossi (1931-97) e Lina Bo Bardi (1915-92). Rossi, com sua obra A arquitetura da cidade (1966), desperta interesse pelo questionamento aos preceitos do movimento moderno e pela busca de estruturas essenciais permanentes presentes nas cidades em seu devir histórico. Lina Bardi chama atenção pela tentativa de superação da fratura histórica entre o antigo e o moderno e pela ativação de um pertinente exercício crítico aplicado na intervenção relacionada a preexistências de valor documental. O estudo procura explorar os vínculos que os dois arquitetos estabelecem com os respectivos contextos de formação e com a tradição crítica italiana de modo mais amplo. A investigação adota uma abordagem histórica a partir de um recorte temporal que privilegia três momentos específicos: traça inicialmente um panorama do século XIX e da origem das teorias e práticas de conservação dos bens culturais; analisa, a seguir, a década de 1930 como momento de tensão entre duas posturas antagônicas a conservação e a inovação mediante a análise dos seguintes documentos: Carta de Restauro de Atenas (1931) e Carta de Atenas CIAM (1933); por fim, enfoca o período do pós-guerra com ênfase nos anos 1960 como época de reconciliação entre memória e invenção, tendo como pano de fundo o ambiente cultural italiano, com atenção especial à revisão do movimento moderno no que se refere à relação com a história, bem como às discussões ligadas aos temas da conservação dos bens culturais e os desdobramentos desse debate na obra de Aldo Rossi e de Lina Bardi. Entre os objetos de estudo do campo do patrimônio arquitetônico, relacionados à produção de Lina Bardi, destacam-se: a Carta de Veneza (1964), as noções do restauro científico e restauro crítico, além da Teoria del Restauro de Cesare Brandi (1963). O enfoque dos debate recentes sobre a ampliação da noção de patrimônio e suas implicações na cidade contemporânea suscita questionamentos quanto às abordagens centradas em aspectos econômicos e turísticos que relegam a segundo plano as ações de cunho cultural. / This study aims to evaluate possible relations between architectonic design and cultural heritage restoration. In the light of the wide range of relations, this study has been limited to the work of two contemporary architects who opted for approaching design criteria to both pre-existence analysis and historical city observation. Within such universe, Aldo Rossi (1931-97) and Lina Bo Bardi (1915-92) are the object of this study. Rossi, with his work The Architecture of the City (1966), (L\'architettura della Citta) shows interest in both questioning the principles of modern movement and searching for permanent essential structures in the cities related to their historical future. Lina Bo Bardi stands out for her attempt to overcome the historical fracture between the old and the modern as well as, the activation of a pertinent critical exercise applied to the intervention related to the preexisting documental values. This study tries to explore the bounds that both architects establish with their respective upbringing contexts and with the Italian critical traditions in a broader manner. The investigation adopts a historical approach from a time period which privileges three specific moments: first delineates a panorama of 19th century and the origin of theories and practices of cultural heritage preservation; then, it examines the 1930s as a moment of tension between the two opposite approaches preservation and innovation upon the following documents analysis: Athens Charter (1931) and Charter of Athens CIAM (1933); and finally, it focuses the post-war period with emphasis on the 1960s as a reconciliation time between memory and invention, having as background the Italian cultural environment, with special attention to the modern movement reviewing in addressing History as well as to the discussions related to cultural heritage preservation and the unfolding of such debate in the work of Aldo Rossi and Lina Bardi. Among the studied objects in the field of architectonic heritage, related to the production of Lina Bardi, stands out: the Venice Charter (1964), the notions in the scientific restoration and critical restoration, in addition to the Teoria del Restauro by Cesare Brandi (1963). The recent debates focus on the expansion in heritage notions and its implications in the contemporaneous city trigger questionings on the approaches focused on economical and tourism aspects which relegate to second plan the cultural character efforts.This study aims to evaluate possible relations between architectonic design and cultural heritage restoration. In the light of the wide range of relations, this study has been limited to the work of two contemporary architects who opted for approaching design criteria to both pre-existence analysis and historical city observation. Within such universe, Aldo Rossi (1931-97) and Lina Bo Bardi (1915-92) are the object of this study. Rossi, with his work The Architecture of the City (1966), (L\'architettura della Citta) shows interest in both questioning the principles of modern movement and searching for permanent essential structures in the cities related to their historical future. Lina Bo Bardi stands out for her attempt to overcome the historical fracture between the old and the modern as well as, the activation of a pertinent critical exercise applied to the intervention related to the preexisting documental values. This study tries to explore the bounds that both architects establish with their respective upbringing contexts and with the Italian critical traditions in a broader manner. The investigation adopts a historical approach from a time period which privileges three specific moments: first delineates a panorama of 19th century and the origin of theories and practices of cultural heritage preservation; then, it examines the 1930s as a moment of tension between the two opposite approaches preservation and innovation upon the following documents analysis: Athens Charter (1931) and Charter of Athens CIAM (1933); and finally, it focuses the post-war period with emphasis on the 1960s as a reconciliation time between memory and invention, having as background the Italian cultural environment, with special attention to the modern movement reviewing in addressing History as well as to the discussions related to cultural heritage preservation and the unfolding of such debate in the work of Aldo Rossi and Lina Bardi. Among the studied objects in the field of architectonic heritage, related to the production of Lina Bardi, stands out: the Venice Charter (1964), the notions in the scientific restoration and critical restoration, in addition to the Teoria del Restauro by Cesare Brandi (1963). The recent debates focus on the expansion in heritage notions and its implications in the contemporaneous city trigger questionings on the approaches focused on economical and tourism aspects which relegate to second plan the cultural character efforts.

L’urbanisme s’intéresse principalement à l’espace et aux temporalités urbaines. Les dynamiques socio-spatiales sont en perpétuelle interaction. La ville s’apprécie en regard des dynamiques y afférentes ; lesquelles résultent des effets réciproques de l’espace et la société. L’espace est un produit de la société ; la relation à ce propos n’est ni totalement causale ni subséquente, elle est plutôt interactionnelle. La médina peut être considérée comme une arène où des intérêts sont en conflit. Malheureusement, depuis longtemps, les intérêts collectifs ont subi la loi des intérêts individuels qui ne voient que le court terme. Si aucune issue n’est envisageable, la médina ira tout droit, à long terme, vers sa ruine voire sa disparition. Et pour trouver une issue à cette situation, il est donc essentiel de proposer une nouvelle urbanité à la médina, c’est-à-dire un horizon de développement intégré correspondant aux besoins d’une agglomération moderne, mais dans une ville gardienne de son histoire et de son patrimoine. Et pour y arriver, il est urgent de procéder à un processus de mise en valeur et de sauvegarde de cet héritage urbain de plus en plus menacé. Il est temps donc d’entamer des pistes de réflexion et de collaboration dans le but d’arriver à asseoir un plan d’action dédié à mettre en valeur la médina pour lui redonner vie et non pas de la considérer comme un simple quartier parmi d’autres / Urban planning is mainly concerned with urban space and temporalities. Socio-spatial dynamics are in perpetual interaction. The city is assessed in terms of the dynamics involved; which result from the reciprocal effects of space and society. Space is a product of society; the relationship in this respect is neither totally causal nor subsequent, it is rather interactional. The medina can be considered as an arena where interests are in conflict. Unfortunately, for a long time, collective interests have been subject to the law of individual interests that only see the short term. If no way out is possible, the medina will go straight, in the long term, to its ruin or even its disappearance. And to find a solution to this situation, it is therefore essential to propose a new urbanity to the medina, that is to say, a horizon of integrated development corresponding to the needs of a modern agglomeration, but in a city guardian of its history and its heritage. And to achieve this, it is urgent to proceed with a process of enhancement and safeguard of this urban heritage increasingly threatened. It is therefore time to start thinking and collaborating in order to come up with a plan of action dedicated to highlight the medina to give it life and not to consider it as a simple neighborhood among 'other