Re: Loose In Lugaash
As it turns out, everyone is pretty much heading into town in the same direction anyway. At the outskirts of the city, you get shops and vendors that tend to be specialized. You pass a cart that offers nothing but shawls run by a woman in semi-peasant garb. It's hard to tell here because color is everywhere.
As you move further into the city toward the center, you start seeing more diversity, more variety. Some of the best work is at the edge, but it doesn't tend to match the commericial quality towards the center of town.
The center of town is dominated by the largest building in Lugarno is clearly the Shah's palace. It's roughly four-stories tall, though it appears to have been built as only three stories with each being taller than normal. The building has a central dome, and there are small spires at the corners. It is made of a pinkish-red brick with much white marble as cornices, lintels and such.
There is a wide avenue completely around it, so no shops or vendors are near it. But those are along the outer edge of the avenue. Once again, there is a distinction of shops. Those along the avenue are fairly simple shops. No vendor carts are in evidence. It's only on the outer side of the city blocks that line the avenue that you get the large shops. There are a few 'general store' types, along the lines of a department store, but most seem to be oriented to one type of product, such as a clothing shop, a leather shop, a pottery shop, a blade seller, and a jewelry shop.
There are cart-based vendors scattered all along the streets, only dwindling as you approach the living areas to the outer edge. There are water sellers, toy sellers, food sellers, trinket sellers, food sellers... There are jugglers, musicians, snake charmers, prayer chanters, fortune tellers, etc.