Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations
Subtitle: Algiers Under French Rule
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780520204577
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Colonization & independence; Theory of architecture; Urban Architecture; Europe - France; Urban Planning; Architecture; History - General History; Middle East - General; Architecture, French; Algeria; History - General; International Architecture - Middle Eastern; Architecture / General; Algiers; Architecture and society; Architecture, Colonial
First sentence: The term casbah refers to the ancient core of Algiers, the triangular-shaped town carved into the hills facing the Mediterranean (Fig. 2).
Description: xiv, 236 p. : 24 cm