Deterioration of the Urban Heritage Fields : Case study of Bordj Zemmoura City -Algeria

The paper deals with the issue of the deterioration of the urban heritage fields of the city of Bordj Zemmoura, which negatively affected the social and economic characteristics of the population and the identity and privacy of the field, which represents the problem of the research, where we addressed it by diagnosing this case and identifying its various manifestations on the built and non-built field, leading to its material and immaterial causes. The main objective of the research is to build an informed base for the phenomenon of the deterioration of urban heritage fields in general and the city of Bordj Zemmoura in particular, and to identify the factors causing it to help develop effective solutions to reduce its effects in urban reality. It also ends with monitoring the most important results represented in the deterioration of the urban heritage field of the city of Bordj Zemmoura is caused by the first is the urban expansion practiced by the residents randomly without taking into consideration the regulation and the current laws. Keywords: urban deterioration; urban heritage fields; City of Bordj Zemmoura; cultural identity; urban expansion.