BRIDGING BAZAARS

The bazaars of the Walled City grow almost spontaneously. There are no rigid zones of activities, with designated districts for the residential, commercial, and social action. Instead, the city is a jumble of fluidly connected spaces through an organic system of primary, secondary, and tertiary bazaars. The main bazaars have a primarily commercial character, while the residential neighborhoods merely house small-scale shops for the residents to purchase house-hold essentials from. Secondary bazaars perform the role of bridges between the busier main bazaars and the quiet residential neighborhoods. These bazaars once had a strong residential component, with the shops at a street level, almost without exception, being expanded into multistoried houses, the domestic land-use beginning at the rear-end of the ground-floor, and continuing to the upper-floors (AKCSP 2018).