Industrialization, demographic explosion, rural exodus, and changing lifestyles have resulted in intense urbanization of Moroccan cities and centers. This phenomenon has produced a housing crisis fueling rampant land speculation, driving up property prices for sale and rental, while also generating insalubrious neighborhoods surrounding major agglomerations. The urban planner faces inextricable problems, forced to fight on multiple fronts to provide humans with a living environment adapted to their nature. Urban planning aims to understand the urban phenomenon as a whole, remedy its ills, and rationally activate its future. The fundamental question is whether Morocco's land system allows the urban planner to act freely on his raw material—the land. Can economic development accommodate a rigid system that views immovable property as one of the most sacred subjective rights?
M'hamed Motik (Sat,) studied this question.