From talk to action: an effective recovery strategy for Oran’s historic centre?

Sidi-El-Houari is Oran’s mother city, carrying the identity of a city that has been continuously under construction for a thousand years. Despite its status as a ‘protected sector,’ this neighbourhood is today threatened with being wiped out due to the deterioration of its built form and general socio-economic devitalisation. Limited interventions have regrettably played a role in the deculturation of a place that is loaded with memory. Official...