The history of the city and the Algeciris urban development is often seen as a succession of “physical” productions, which by superposition or extension produce the city. This succession in the linear axis of time denies certain causal relationships, links between the forms produced and the organising authorities which produce them. The narrative approach covers all the heterogeneous elements that make up the urban event, summarising them into a coherent system. It also makes it possible to give thickness to time and to redivide its axis. The actors, their outputs and their interrelations are clarified. The narrative also allows for different readings from the city, several stories can overlap, cross or intersect, giving new angles of approach and new perceptions. The article we propose is the subject of an ongoing doctoral research on the evolution of urban planning authorities in Algiers, the stories they generate and their future developments. The highly present literary analogy with Paul Ricœur as the main reference is not only metaphoric, but the methodological basis of the approach. The decomposition of the literary structure of the narrative, the relationship to time, the intrigue and the relationship to space and characters allow us to decompose, recompose and analyse the urban fact as a synthesis of heterogeneity. In our case, we propose a division into two main parts, depending on the place of what we call: dominant narratives, resistant stories and emerging stories. The first part or period is between 1962 and 1990. This period corresponds to what we have called the ‘Grands of Algeo Urban Planning’, where we can clearly define a dominant organising power with an ideology and a vision of the corresponding city. These dominant narratives are certainly not the only stories at stake. They confront resilient and emerging narratives that act in parallel even if they do not leave as many traces. The second part corresponds to what we have referred to as the “Multiplication of the Algerois Urban Stores”. It starts in 1980 and continues today. The peculiarity of this period is the virtual absence of a dominant narrative in the face of the proliferation of resistant or emerging narratives. This narrative approach stems from the questioning of the conditions of an algae urban development, in the sense of urban public action regulating the play of cooperation and the conflict between the organising authorities and urban production. The search for a future of the city, a narrative to be built or under construction is the very aim of the research that we propose to submit to the debate through this Communication.