Abstract
If Algier owes its nickname -«white town»- to its flat and terracing buildings (the kasbach) all over the hill overhanging the Mediterranean sea, the city owes its architecture to french attendance from 1830 to 1962. More than everywhere else in others french colonial areas, Paris wants, as far back as the «Conquest», to change Algier into an european city, an french city, an «city-lights». French political intervention is determining because governments want to provide Algier with all the attributes of a french capital outside mother country. All of this is accompanied by the french will of not to see, and not to consider, «ancient people», or as we said «native element». If he's present in the city, this is to say that two areas are living together, sometimes they fit in, but without mix for all that.
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