Cairo: Renewing the Historic City

This book reveals how the Aga Khan Development Network and its Historic Cities Programme transformed an area of Cairo's urban blight into a dynamic public space.

Once a city of verdant gardens and parks, Cairo in the 1980s was severely overcrowded, economically struggling, and many of its inhabitants lived in unsanitary conditions. Historic Cairo, a World Heritage Site centered on the original Fatimid settlement of Cairo, has presented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3791356410
• ISBN13: 9783791356419
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Prestel Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 11.3"