br>The city grew as the colonial people's immediate hinterland and the development of the communications connects with the interior regions. The city will experience many changes. Piercing streets and boulevards, on the model of European cities, thereby causing the disappearance of many relics and monuments .
This is the balcony of the town hall of Mostaganem, in June 1958 , that General de Gaulle in favor of the one and only time "Long live French Algeria ".
Independence
The new town.
A decade after independence, the urbanization of the city has been relatively slow. Only a few structural projects were completed as the headquarters of the province, with a Moorish architecture .
In the 70s , Mostaganem has benefited from a program of urban planning which will trace the broad outlines of its urban expansion, Salamander a seaside resort in the south west of the city, became a district of the city, south extension of urbanization created a junction with Mazagran .
Northeast to Kharouba of major projects will emerge as the new university center, university cities and the new hospital. Part overlooking the sea habitat is dominated by individual and semi-collective. The space frame Mostaganem grew at an annual rate of 7.34% between1977 and 2000 , the built-up area of the city is 1.5 times
