Desire for nature in Greater Tunis

Renaturation is becoming one of the most important contemporary concerns when it comes to thinking about large metropolises and making everyday life more their inhabitants more livable. This is particularly the case in Tunis, where the presence of nature remains discreet and sometimes even ignored by planning urban. This work, the result of more than twenty years of research and field surveys, immerses us in the history of spatial transformations and plants of the Tunisian capital. Influenced as much by a context fluctuating geopolitics as well as Western urban planning trends, the The resulting landscape of the metropolis is tested and analyzed here. The author draws up an inventory of the environmental forms that compose it and studies near the relationship that city residents have with green spaces in order to take a critical look at current planning regulations. Drawing inspiration from international urban experiences and using tactical urban planning as a lever for action, the author thus projects a filament green, an urban crossing of the Tunisian hypercenter and shows thereby that it is possible to reintroduce nature into the heart of the dense city to respond to the climate emergency and improve the quality of living environments.