Rapid urbanization and housing challenges are inescapable realities of our contemporary era. Around the world, manyurban regions face complex issues such as the shortage of quality housing, degraded neighborhoods, and continuedpopulation growth. These issues raise crucial questions about how we manage our urban spaces and how we respondto the needs of citizens. This work explores urban revitalization, both as a general concept in the specific context ofAlgeria, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities that arise. Our study asks how the urban revitalization of aneighborhood can be implemented in a relevant way while effectively promoting community participation? Thisresearch, whose objective is to understand the challenges of urban revitalization, offers a strategic framework forrevitalization. Establishing recommendations to improve residents' quality of life, thus serving as a starting point forfuture actions. It aspires to transform the neighbourhood into a vibrant and inclusive place, while mobilizing thecommunity engagement and resources needed for successful urban revitalization.

French colonial mass housing estates built in Algiers between 1950 and 1962 constitute a substantial part of the city’s housing stock and continue to shape its urban structure. As aging residential environments, they present important challenges for sustainable regeneration. Despite their significance, the relationship between urban configuration and long-term physical deterioration remains poorly understood. This study establishes a georeferenced inventory of these estates by combining archival documentation and field surveys with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and space syntax analysis. Configurational properties were quantified using Normalized Angular Integration (NAIN) in DepthmapX, while the physical state of each estate was evaluated through a systematic assessment of structural elements, façades, and public spaces. The results reveal considerable variation in integration and a statistically significant relationship between its levels and physical quality. Estates occupying more privileged positions within the street network generally exhibited better maintenance and higher-quality public spaces, whereas more isolated estates experienced greater deterioration. The findings suggest that street integration is associated with estate performance, providing quantitative evidence to support sustainable regeneration planning by proposing a practical decision-support framework for identifying evidence-based resilience planning and governance priorities.