La transformación de la ciudad de Tánger durante el periodo diplomático (1777-1912): Arquitectura y Urbanismo

Identifier:  TDX:3046

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3046

Authors:  Mas Garriga, Jordi

Abstract:
This thesis aims to study the urban and architectonic transformation of the Moroccan city of Tangier during the Diplomatic Period (1777-1912). In this stage the city became the Diplomatic capital of the Moroccan Empire, the settlement of foreign representatives (consuls) propelled its openness to Europe leading its socioeconomic structures towards a premature westernization. This process was reflected in the material sphere through important changes in the urban and architectonic space. This thesis has identified the main agents who took part in these changes and its principal interventions in the urban landscape. The urban study has recognized the chief features of its evolution and the origin and development of its neighbourhoods during this period. Urban heritage and geographic elements have been considered as well in order to understand its configuration. In the architectonic sphere, the study has been focused, on the one hand, in the identification of the main typologies, features and evolution of the autochthonous architecture and, on the other hand, the architecture promoted by the foreigners and Moroccans has been studied. This architecture sought to emulate the features and comfort of the European models, its analysis has showed the chief architectonic styles employed, some of the principal promoters of this new architecture, the new typologies appeared and the role played by the modern construction materials. In short, this thesis is a monographic work concerning a period of the history of Tangier almost devoid of architectonic and urban studies.