December 15, 2017
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Fadila Kettaf, « Pour une “aventure” des noms des places d’Oran (Algérie) », Cybergeo : revue européenne de géographie / European journal of geography, ID : 10670/1.omfdbq
This paper examines the squares of Oran through their names. The city words field study represents an important approach to the analysis of the formative process of city's space. Names are key elements in the appropriation of urban space as they gradually shape collective memory and impacts significantly urban life. In this paper, we attempt to trace in some ways the “adventure” of square names to grab their emergence, their importance, their meaning. We borrow the term of “adventure” of Christian Topalov et al (2010) because it seems to express the idea of a travelled path, made of permanence or changes of use according to urban realities that the names have as a role to indicate.