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The coastal city of Ghar El Melh by its urban, social, and agricultural landscape specificities continues to mark a notoriety on other similar sites in the region of Northern Tunisia. Precisely, it constitutes one of the north east coast’s singular Andalusian cities. Landscape markers are assigned to this small town, including its identities, its heritage and territorial potential. Such characteristics give Ghar El Melh, the skills of exchange, time and space interaction, and values. A pattern of neo-rurality is thus encircled. In this case, this work tries to characterize the diversity of a typical urban, agricultural, architectural and ecological landscapes. It should be noted that the geomorphological and seaside developments have significantly altered the physiognomy, forms and functions of the space studied. The landscape analysis adopted throughout the research was based on the establishment of a multiscale reading grid, interpretation and operational actions. Together, they were able to identify indicators of recognition and enhancement of specific heritage and landscape components. It should be noted that the landscape of Ghar El Melh guarantees a resilience of the architectural, urban and hydraulic socio-cu ltural, practices facing environmental degradation and limited planning. A sufficiently diversified potential to make this city an example in terms of practices and sustainable development from rural to urban. In this case, the combination of heritage and management policies is a necessary step in identifying new eco-development projects, attractiveness and territorial labelling. |