important contributions to the study

important contributions to the study

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’From the historian’s perspective, Geertz made important contributions to the study of Moroccan urbanism. In his writing on Sefrou between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, he mapped out how material changes in the city accompanied an emerging sense of a localised urban consciousness. By asking the eternal question, ‘For whom is the city made?’ he showed that even in provincial Sefrou, the built environment could unexpectedly serve as a site for ideological and social confrontation and the working out of one group’s desire for political domination over others. On the more theoretical level, his work on Sefrou also demonstrates how architects and builders could play roles as agents of change สล็อต