الفهرس | يوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام |
المستخلص - Many countries in the World have cities with important cultural and historical values. In many cases, historic areas are within the expansions of the modern city as such these inner-city which their present physical and non-physical Urban environment reveal the processes of Urbanization , development and decline of these historical places. - Urban planners , architects , historians and archeologists alike , are very interested in the inherent emotional qualities these area contain, and the\y are assigned as ” Conservation areas” and the suggested for these areas an important role of rejuvenating the local economy via the tourist market and consolidation of the city’s Urban development in general. - Despite great difference of prevailing political , administrative and socio- economic systems all over the World these areas have similar deterioration problems , specially in mega-cities. Historic Cairo is an excellent complex example of this phenomenon. - Since 1979 six areas in Cairo have been included in the” World Heritage List ” prepared by ” UNESCO ” , the inner city, historic Cairo was the most important area - However ,the historic city is now in the process of rapid transformation of its Urban fabric and unique character. It has reached a critical point of low socio-economic and physical status for its residents and Urban context in addition the administratively mismanaged. - Many governmental institutions and agencies have initiated countless efforts for the rehabilitation of historic Cairo during fifty years, using traditional planning processes , these endeavors produced outputs of limited impact and were mostly blue prints with unimplementable rehabilitation schemes in addition, Urban public polices have failed to stop the continuous loss of Urban historic resources in the area or alleviate its wide spread Urban poverty , this highlights the need to analyze the various deterioration mechanisms at play in historic Cairo and to identify the obstacles that hinder planning implementation. It is necessary to establish an approach for the development of historic Cairo on a sustainable basis. |