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On an area twice as small as that of the wilaya of Tipaza, the wilaya of Algiers is home to a
population of 3.15 million in 2015. This population is settled in more than 3.5 million housing
units consisting of about 80% dwellings and 20% of individual houses (self-build).
Proportionally to these figures, the EF of the wilaya of Algiers EF_urbanism is 72 times larger
than that of the wilaya of Tipaza.
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10000000,00
20000000,00
30000000,00
Algiers
Tipaza
ECOLOGICAL FOOT PRINT (GHA)
EF_c
EF_built
EF_Total_Urbanism
Figure 10. Operational and embodied energy proportion in the Total Energy Ecological Footprint
of urbanization
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50,00%
100,00%
Algiers
Tipaza
(%) OF THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
EF_c
EF_emb__energy
EF_opt_energy
Figure 11. Ecological footprint of the urbanization sector of Algiers and Tipaza wilayas