Evaluate the sociocultural impacts of urbanization practices of a totalitarian regime by a spatio-chronological analysis. Case Study of Damascus.

Abstract Thinking about space and its temporal evolution to analyze, understand and manage sociocultural crises in the context of political domination is an approach that helps us understand the roles of different political and economic actors in internal conflicts. This places a premium on establishing methods using geographic technology to develop these approaches. In this context, this paper proposes a method of spatiotemporal analysis of urbanization strategies implemented by different political actors based on a case study of Damascus. Several significant correlations emerged in this study, in particular, the informality of settlements and the segregation of the different sociocultural groups that make up the city, which allowed us to synthesize the ways in which public authorities have acted differently on urban space in Damascus.