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The new ksar of Tafilelt situated in Ghardaia in southern Algeria has attracted a lot of interest in scientific work being a neotraditional urban model that reproduces the principles of composition and spatial organization of the ksour in the pentapolis of Ghardaia This ksar embodies the adaptation between tradition and modernity it refers to the local setting of the ksourien space production contributes to the valorization of these ancient centres that date back to the XIth centuryIn parallel to the work of thesis undertaken on the neotraditional models of reference in Algeria for the new cities we ask the following questions according to the case of Tafilelt Is this ksar really a model Does it take the traditional model fully Is this indeed a new city In addition speaking about the concept of multifunctionality How to detect this integral reproduction in the urban spaces between the old and the new ksari This work will be an analytical reading of the spaces of this ksar according to the four concepts above namely the urban model of reference the criteria of the new city the criteria of the former ksour and the multiuse character of their spaces We will try to apply the concept of multifunctionality on urban spaces in different scales to assess the multifunctionality of the ksars spaces in a comparative approach between the old and the new ksour
