Rabat

Rabat's urban form brings a twentieth-century planned capital into close contact with an older Atlantic city. The modern town, developed principally between 1912 and 1930, organised administrative, commercial and residential functions through boulevards, public spaces and planted areas.

This planning retained the medina and kasbah as distinct parts of the city, creating a relationship between inherited urban fabric and new civic architecture. Buildings combined modern approaches with local decorative traditions, while neighbourhoods such as the Habous district extended this exchange into housing. The city's architectural significance lies in this wider composition: street planning, gardens, public institutions and established neighbourhoods form a connected ensemble rather than a collection of isolated monuments.