Mechanisms to Activate The Economic Sustainability in Urban Heritage Areas

(Historic Cairo as a model)

Abstract

The researcher deals with the various possible mechanisms that would activate the economic bases of sustainability in the urban heritage areas through the explanation, analysis and application. The main problem of the research is the knowledge of the tools and mechanisms through which the economic bases of sustainability can be activated in urban heritage areas,The research aims to provide possible recommendations that enhance the activation of the application of these mechanisms, and the researcher studies the problem and attempts to achieve the research objectives through the scientific methodology that includes a descriptive and analytical approach to explain and analyze the literature, the economic bases of sustainability and mechanisms to activate as well as the applied approach through an applied case, which is Historic Cairo and researching the extent Achieving the economic bases for sustainability and proposing , The researcher begins by presenting the modern literature that dealt with the concepts of sustainability and urban heritage and comparing these concepts. The researcher moves to define the various economic bases of sustainability, then the researcher reviews the various mechanisms and tools that will establish and activate the economic bases for sustainability in the urban heritage areas, and the researcher moves to the applied part “historical Cairo” as a model for urban heritage , then the researcher determines the results that have been reached and from these results that there are economic bases for sustainability represented in 10 main principles, including activating the economic revival cycle of the heritage building, , The researcher also provides several recommendations that contribute to implementing mechanisms for establishing and activating the economic bases for sustainability in urban heritage areas.