FROM THE PRACTICE OF A DESIGN KNOWLEDGE TO THE DESIGN OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGNS

Urban space often evokes a multitude of pictures and concepts which can be
divergent if not contradictory. This multitude of concepts illustrates the multidimensional and interdisciplinary nature of the urban space. The appreciation and the assessment of the quality of the urban space varies from one period to another, from one culture to another, from a social group to another, from one person to another.

Most of the researches on architectural and urbanism in the Algerian case are
concentrated on the socio economic values, the exchange and use values, while putting in exergue the historic measurements and/or symbolic of the urban and ethnics entities.

The urban growth of a city like Algiers reveals a discontinuity in instruments and strategies. This discontinuity is the origin of the total disorganization to such a point that the urban project and the project of the society are reconsidered periodically.

This communication considers how we create a relation between the University
(in this case we will present the LGAT: Laboratoire de Geographie, d'Amenagement et du Territoire in the U.ST.H.B.: Universite des Sciences et Technologies Haouari Boumediene, Algiers) and the Municipality of Algiers.
In this paper, our aims are to orient the debate on the following questions:
1) What is the nature of the research?
2)How does this research help the Municipality in making decision?
3)How does research function as a source of knowledge ( in the post-graduate studies)?
4)What are the sources of the research?
5)What is the relation of this research with the others in the laboratory?
6)How do we move from theory to practice?
7) What are the main obstacles in the development of this research: remarks and
recommendations?