Urban Forms in the City of Batna Between Reality and Hope (A Case Study of the City of Batna(Algeria)

Abstract

     This study aims to define the concept of the urban form of the city, and exposure to two important models of it, which characterized the field of the city of Batna and were the result of its continuous urban expansion, namely, the chaotic (unplanned) urban form, and the planned (unorganized) urban form, which is known as allotment, as it was required here Presenting the reality of each of them within the city, and the most important stages of their development, while also addressing their most important advantages and characteristics that highlight the most important positive and negative aspects of them, and the extent of their impact on the urban fabric of the city.

And we concluded during this study that these two urban forms had an impact and are still affecting the urban fabric of the city of Batna through their poor planning, their distortion of the city's image, and the miserable conditions within their neighborhoods due to their lack of the simplest conditions of life (various facilities, drinking water...), and this The effect was according to the nature, importance, role, and function of these two urban forms (organization and guidance) in the management of the city's urban field, which necessitated controlling the spread of the phenomenon in a way that limits its negative effects at the level of this field.