The Urban Project as a Public Action Tool: Development Proposals for the City of Tahennaout
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Owing to its strategic location and diverse assets, the small town of Tahennaout located on the foothills of the Moroccan High Atlas, approximately thirty kilometers south of Marrakech possesses considerable development potential. Nevertheless, this urban area is confronted with a range of internal and external constraints that impede its growth. These challenges are demographic, urbanistic, and environmental in nature, and are further compounded by the town’s spatial and functional relationship with the metropolitan area of Marrakech. Based on this brief diagnosis and a series of field investigations, it becomes evident that this emerging town requires a comprehensive, ambitious, and realistic urban development strategy. Such a strategy would involve the implementation of integrated planning interventions, notably the redirection of urban growth toward the town’s core through the establishment of a new centrality that connects the two existing residential clusters. To enhance conditions for social inclusion and diversity in socio-cultural practices, it is essential to develop a road infrastructure network that facilitates mobility within the town and ensures connectivity with other urban centers across the province. This urban restructuring could also support the valorization of local resources through the development of an agro-industrial complex (agropole), capitalizing in particular on the abundance of olive production in the town’s hinterland. The success of such an urban project necessarily depends on the commitment and coordination of all stakeholders concerned with the future of this promising locality near the metropolitan hub of Marrakech.
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