The radicalism of the city does not lie in the deployment of an abstract geometrical figure that, as Creswell suggests, can in fact be found in several other cities in the Muslim world beginning with Assyrian military camps, but rather in the attempt to conceive the possibility of the city through the project of its edge, a thick, multilayered inhabitable fortress that simultaneously contains and organizes residential, defensive and communication functions.
La radicalidad de su esquema urbano no proviene de la utilización de una figura geométrica abstracta que, como Creswell sugiere, puede de hecho encontrarse varias veces en otras ciudades del mundo islámico, partiendo por los campamentos militares asirios.