‘경제발전’과 ‘지속가능성’의 사이에서

Abstract

This study analyzes what choices Algeria, an emerging developing country, made between the pursuit of economic development and sustainability in the process of urbanization and where it is located. This study examines how the path-dependency of a multilayered system, such as colonial modernity, socialism, and adoption of a market economy, works in this process. To this end, the characteristics, current status, and issues of Algerian urbanization following social changes and system changes were identified, and its status was analyzed through the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a common orientation of today’s global cities. As a result of the analysis, despite the promotion of the market economy, Algerian urbanization did not result in ‘poverty’ as it was based on the long-term balanced development policy in accordance with the principle of elimination of discrimination and national solidarity by strong decolonist socialism. On the other hand, it was found that infrastructure and housing supply fell short of the speed of urban overcrowding by not growing rapidly like cities in developmentalist countries in the past. This is embodied as an unusual pattern of implementation of SDGs in which ‘low inequality’ and ‘low urban sustainability’ coexist, which means that the balanced development policy has properly controlled the evils of modern capitalist urbanization centered on economic growth.