Development Plan for the Old City of Aleppo

About 

This publication was a product of the Project for the Rehabilitation of the Old City of Aleppo; a Syrian-German cooperation program co- funded by GIZ (GTZ then) and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.  The project focuses on the development of Old Aleppo; a 355-hectares World Heritage Site. 

This publication is a pre-LUGARIT work by a team of experts. 

Summary

The Development Plan for the Old City of Aleppo is a long-term planning program to revitalize and preserve the historic city and develop adequate urban management systems.  


The Development Plan includes a context analysis for Aleppo’s historic center, which is home to over 106,000 inhabitants and numerous historical structures.  The analysis covers challenges of urban growth, socio-economic shifts, past planning efforts, and current rehabilitation efforts (both by the public and private sectors). 


The Development Plan for the Old City of Aleppo is anchored in several key objectives, focusing on the revitalization and preservation of its cultural and historical significance:



The Development Plan also includes a mixture of strategies to achieve its complex objectives:



The strategies proposed by the Development Plan adopt the following principles: 



Our expert - Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj - contributed the following services towards the preparation of the Development Plan: 

Publication 

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Publisher 

GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit >


Date

1998


Credits

Editors 


Project Team


Year:  1994 - 2004

Client:  GIZ 

A Syrian-German cooperation project aims to develop and preserve the Old City of Aleppo; a 355-hectare World Heritage Site. Our experts contribute to the project in co-creating its Development Plan, stakeholder engagement, setting up housing programs with microcredits, land use planning, preparing building codes, and drafting pilot neighborhood plans. 

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Header Photo

Aerial view of the old city of Aleppo before war. 1993.   Photo © Frederic Soltan/Sygma/Corbis - Via The Guardian.  Link >