El Aliya district in Fedala (renamed Mohammedia in 1960)

During the early 1950s, the El Aliya district in Fedala (renamed Mohammedia in 1960) was built as a modern planned residential community under Morocco's social housing program (Habitat Marocain). Designed by modern architects like Michel Écochard, the housing project sought to address urban growth along the Casablanca-Fedala industrial corridor by providing functional, low-cost housing units that integrated traditional North African courtyard layouts (patio) with modern sanitation and urban planning standards.

Issued in 1953 by Morocco (MAROC / المغرب) to benefit national social welfare funds (SOLIDARITE), this airmail stamp (POSTE AERIENNE) displays an architectural perspective of El Aliya in Fedala (Habitat Marocain - El Aliya - Fedala). The vignette depicts the geometric layout of the courtyard housing units and surrounding public structures, with the silhouette of an airplane cast across the landscape below.