Histoire urbaine de la ville de Fès et Pouvoirs politiques

Abstract

The use of the historical approach to the urban evolution of the city of Fes emphasizes the weight of the Fassi population compared to the power exercised on the spot and its perpetual determination to participate in the management of its city, especially since the colonial era. The city’s management system interacts strongly and presumably in a contraposed way with the different forms of local power. A power based at all times on the ability of local actors to appropriate the regimes emanating from the central, readjust and operate them as local practices, thus reflecting other mechanisms of legitimacy, apart from that from of the Center. The collective actions and mobilizations, even the informal ones that the city of Fez has
known throughout its history illustrate the different natures of local actors’ adherence to the directives of the center and their disposition to challenge them and impose others, by entering into a political exercise built from below. Thus, new relationships and forms of political regulation are regularly emerging, favoring a decentralized management of local urban problems.