The ties that used to bind the city together -- whether they were social, through coherent building, or economic, through trade in the souk, or religious, through the coexistent presence -- were all lost in the misguided and visionless modernization of the built environment.
Ce qui unissait autrefois la ville -- socialement, via l'habitat, économiquement, via le souk, ou religieusement, via la coexistence -- a été perdu dans la modernisation dévoyée et aveugle de l'habitat.