• Figure 6.9. In Ottoman Algiers, high overhead projections such as these and extra steps in front of buildings were regularly permitted, thus increasing the complexity of the shape of its streets. (Source: Library of Congress; http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.05528)

A view of Red Sea Street, Algiers, 1899

From Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies: Notes on the Social Production of Cities by Mahbub Rashid

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