Disparités spatiales en Syrie : dynamiques citadines, politiques d'aménagement territorial, régions

Abstract

Littoralization is a recent sign of spatial disparity in the southern Mediterranean. Syria differs from most of the countries of the region by virtue if its very light littoralization, but can it be considered a coherent entity without Beirut and Lebanon or without of the Gulf cities, which constitute an economic and banking platform essential to the whole region ? The spatial disparities are thus to be found outside of littoralization. Are they regional disparities ? In point of fact we can even wonder if «regions» exist in the Syria which was inherited from the Ottoman empire. It would seem to be the city/countryside disparity that is most deeply inscribed, and in any case it is against that phenomenon that the government has chosen to invest the most heavily, making rural improvement on of its most essential stands. But has that policy succeeded in erasing inherited disparities as well as rendering inoperative what is a tendancy to constitute hegemonic urban regions around the great historic centers ? The recent development of Damascus as a capital seems currently to be the principal catalyst for the institution of regional imbalance and spatial disparities.