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.
I legami che univano la città fossero essi sociali,  basati sulla coerenza urbanistica, o economici,  basati sul commercio nei souk, o religiosi, basati sulla convivenza, si persero in mezzo alla modernizzazione malaccorta e mal progettata dell'ambiente urbano.