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Editorial Catalogs Mohamed Ali MRABI
R APID urbanization requires an urgent revision of the methods territories must be designed as spaces for facilitating social, economic,
for designing the roles of territories and of their specializations. and environmental progress, and other types of progress. Territories are
The coherence of the territorial development of our cities and supposed to provide citizens with a decent, integrated, and coherent living
regions is at stake, especially since this development is already begin- environment, with a social and functional mix. To promote this trend, it
ning to pose problems in terms of the distribution of resources and the is urgent to carry out the long-awaited overhaul of urban planning docu-
occupation of spaces. In the absence of well-thought-out urban planning ments. The elected councils, particularly at the regional level, are eagerly
strategies, population growth often leads to the sprawl of cities, with an awaited to act concerning this issue. Thanks to their new attributions,
evolution in the form of “oil spots”. New arrivals generally settle on the elected councils must become the best documented connoisseur of local
outskirts of large cities or in old fabrics, without access to basic services, realities. This is what will allow them to be the vector of articulated pro-
equipment and infrastructure... It is with this logic that improvised urban grams and to guide the regional implementation of public policies. Taking
development, often without coordination between the different levels into account territorial realities well in advance will prevent, for example,
of a territory concerned, causes the loss of many economic and social regional development programs from remaining simple catalogs of pro-
opportunities. This is evidenced by the fiasco of some new cities, whereas jects without consistency.o