Figure 1. Elements of place-based research as mediated by conceptual visualization and used as a means for exploring experiential, representational and imaginative geographies. (Image source: model proposed by the author)
Figure 2. At the base of rue la Plage which winds up the hill to the Grand Socco, 2006.
(Image source: collection of the author, see Roberson 2000-2006)
Figure 3. Two entrances through the medina walls and leading to the Socco Chico, 2003.
(Image source: collection of the author, see Roberson 2000-2006)
Figure 4. The Grand Socco and the three entrances through the medina walls, c. 1985. (Image source: www.mccullagh.org/db9/d30-31/tangier-central-square-1.jpg)
Figure 5. Just inside the medina walls looking back at rue de Italie, 2006.
(Image source: collection of the author, see Roberson 2000-2006)
Figure 6. Socco Chico and two exits to the port, c. 1914.
(Image source: http://www.chez.com/tangerois/tanger/lieux/petisoc1.jpg)
Figure 7. Written on the wall at the Tangier hostel, 2006.
(Image source: collection of the author, see Roberson 2000-2006)
Figure 8. “Never ever say yes to this man..! (I mean the guide of course, not Barry)”, c. 2000.
(Image source: see “Tangier Guide”)
Figure 9. He was “… our shield against all of the annoying drug pushers and wannabe tour guides”, c. 2000.
(Image source: see “Tangier, Morocco”)
Figure 10. Tangier, Country Woman, c. 1890.
(Image source: attributed to J. Valentine in Ben Jelloun, et al 1999, p. 35)
Figure 11. Boy, c. 1950.
(Image source: Landau 1952 facing p. 47)
Figure 12. Photographic travel blog posting of Tangier, c. 2000.
(Image source: see “Monica Getzova's Tangier Journal”)
Figure 13. Place Amrah in the Medina, c. 1950.
(Image source: by Paul Bowles in Bischoff, ed. 1994, p. 104)
Figure 14. “Why didn't we run away?!!”, c. 2000.
(Image source: see “Tangier Guide”)
Figure 15. An alternative visualization of elemental forms: a tunnel–bridge.
Figure 16. Alternative visualization: a street mural that creatively reinterprets the Straits of Gibraltar, Rue de Belgique, 2006.
(Image source: collection of the author, see Roberson 2000-2006)
Figure 17. Iconic tourist city image: the Cave of Hercules, c. 1960.
(Image source: Tangier, Larache, Asilah 1960, p. 10)
Figure 18. Alternative visualization: the Cave of Hercules reinterpreted as part of a compound image, on the cover of Writing Tangier.
(Image source: Amine et al, eds. 2004)
By George F. Roberson
February 2007
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