Urban Planning in Crisis: Urban Fact between Sprawl and Control in Sétif, Algeria
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rapid urbanization in Algeria is at odds with the pre-existing spatial structure of the city and its social evolution. The points of rupture, in most cases out of step with the urban plan, can be read through the different modalities and rhythms of an ‘urban fact’. The urban fact and urbanization characterize a situation and a spontaneous evolution and are opposed to urbanism, which implies a voluntary and planned intervention. The methodology of approach in the present study is based on a retrospective reading of the city of Sétif in Algeria, through two aspects of urbanization: spatial evolution and urban densification. These two dimensions characterize the urban fact that the city of Sétif has to date endured, and has become vulnerable. This is mainly due to the absence of good urban governance and a succession of inconsistent policies, actions and circumstances. The aim of this study is to highlight the shortcomings of operative urban practice since Algerian independence on up to the present day. Urban planning now is in crisis. The goal here is to participate in the overhaul of the legislation on urban planning, putting the necessary markers so as to advance in changing the practices of planning and urban management adapted to territorial equity in the face of socioeconomic changes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".