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Heritage preservation and contemporary production in African towns (Tunis-Lafayette)

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The experience shows that the protection of “ordinary” heritage used by the “regular” people is a crucial topic for town conservation and development. The simple introduction of restrictions in physical transformation is not appropriate to this kind of heritage. Fast transformation societies introduce so many economical and financial values in historical districts that cultural institutions looks like totally powerless in protecting the ordinary heritage. Despite to the pessimism generate by the effective weakness of the juridical protection instruments, we are observing an interesting new way of colonization of colonial quarters. During the last decades, parts of the old residential fabric were transformed in order to include new economic activities. Geographically speaking, those areas offer the advantage of centrality, they are relatively well equipped (public transport and IT services e.g.) and the quality of the buildings is correct for the needed image standard. Last, but not least, colonial buildings offer an appropriate size for this kind of economic activities, the real estate propose commercial correct surfaces, not too small and not too large. The tertiary sector is a crucial one for Northern African countries, they are transforming this traditional segment to a really contemporary one: IT technologies and the insertion into the global word, modify the structure of the tertiary sector. This transformation is very interesting for heritage preservation because those activities can transform the building structure and the urban fabric respecting their cultural heritage shape, as indicated also in the Unesco 2011 HUL directive.
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halshs-01259141, version 1 (19-01-2016)

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Romeo Carabelli. Heritage preservation and contemporary production in African towns (Tunis-Lafayette). Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial and Postcolonial Planning Cultures, 2016. ⟨halshs-01259141⟩
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