Casablanca: Colonial & Post-colonial Urbanism

The 2019 PAN-AFRICA study abroad program was based on a comparison of three major port cities: Casablanca, Tangier, and Marseilles. Students were to see first hand the inter-relationship between Arab and French culture in the built environment in each city. The French re-imagined Casablanca, also the site location, had a port that was largely industrialized after becoming a major port city in Africa. As a result, the port isolated itself from the rest of the culture-rich city. The purpose of CASAPORT was to re-imagine 8 million square miles of port grounds into a hybrid 2019 master plan.