Integrating the Environmental Dimension into Urban Planning in Algeria: Towards a Sustainable Future

The urgent need for reconstruction and construction imposed by rapid demographic growth has become directly or indirectly affecting the environment, given the size of the effects left by urban sprawl at the expense of the environment, in addition to the spread of tin scenery and the expansion of chaotic buildings, for these reasons, the environmental dimension has become one of the necessities that must be taken into account in all development plans, as is the case with preparation and reconstruction plans. The latter is one of the most important legal means of protecting the environment from the risks of reconstruction and construction, and these plans mainly include the National Plan for the Development of the Territory, the Master Plan for Development and Reconstruction, and the Land Occupation scheme. This study showed the extent to which the environmental dimension is included in these plans and the extent to which they achieve sustainable development in Algeria.