Investment as a tool for sustainability of urban heritage in historical areas

Abstract EN

Urban heritage is a legacy inherited from previous generations of human products, and the problem of heritage investment is one of the most important issues facing heritage environments in most Arab countries that contain similar heritage environments.

The first steps of these problems are the investment of heritage areas, Requires communication and the existence of different visions as a result of changes that occur in those environments and their surroundings as a result of the factors of time and human change, projects to preserve this legacy of the most complex operations in view of a set of fundamentals and determinants and standards based on the Agreed between conservation goals and the accompanying change to the continuity of heritage and marketing its investment in a dynamically working to prosper and keep it from disappearing on the one hand and on the other economic returns for investment heritage site.

The study focuses on highlighting the role of heritage investment and its economic returns to the urban heritage sites in the study area through the practical exposure of one of the historical heritage sites in historic Cairo (Darb El Ahmar) as a case study and determining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and possibilities of the project.

To ensure the continuity of the prosperity in urban heritage sites.