Bengladesh ou Medina ? Espaces urbains périphériques et représentations : deux exemples à Annaba et à Guelma (Algérie)

During the last decades, vast suburbs were formed around Algerian cities. Planned or not, these suburbs are of different varieties. This work will draw the opposition between two kinds of suburbs by analysing the inhabitants perceptions of the living spaces that these suburbs offer.The "600 Habitations Complex" section, also known as Bengladesch, is included in the large planned site of the western valley situated in the suburbs of Annaba. In the 1980’s, this program offered housing for a part of the population which was previously living in an informal site. Considered today as the true Medina of Guelma, Oued Skhoun is, on the contrary a sprawling and informal urban space which includes a real commercial dynamic.In Bengladesh or Medina, the inhabitant’s perceptions related to these two spaces are, therefore, radically contradictory. Rationally planned, the "600 Habitations Complex" section is, nevertheless, a poor and ill-conditioned region. On the other hand, Oued Skhoun offers sprawling urban forms liable to bring profit to the whole population of Guelma