Living with Heritage in Cairo: Area Conservation in the Arab - Islamic City (Hardback)
$32.25 - Save $2.70 (7%) - RRP $34.95 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Living with Heritage in Cairo A new assessment of the preservation of historic areas of Middle Eastern cities, with Cairo as a case study
Full description- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Published: 03 January 2010
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: Architecture | Architectural Structure & Design | History Of Architecture | Indigenous Peoples | Anthropology | Urban & Municipal Planning
- ISBN 13: 9789774162459 ISBN 10: 9774162455
Full description for Living with Heritage in Cairo
The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable. Ahmed Sedky investigates the reasons behind this condition, exploring and comparing regional and international case studies. Questions such as how and what to conserve are raised and elaborated through the perspectives of different stakeholders.A resulting evaluative framework is accumulated that underpins the criteria for assessing area conservation in the Arab-Islamic context and that can be used to delineate the causes responsible for the present condition of Historic Cairo.
