The overall purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze a contemporary Muslim city by applying as organizing concerns the dual phenomena of urbanization and urbanism to the city of Marrakesh, Morocco. This kind of study, which in itself is a series of related studies, is intended to elucidate the recent stimuli and responses to change in Marrakesh and also to be a contribution to comparative studies of the general growth and development of urbanization and urbanism in the third world.