By Luna Khirfan
City planners and conservationists in old towns around the globe grapple with the competing pursuits of conservation, city layout, and monetary and social improvement. This e-book deals an interdisciplinary method of the most important relationships among historical past conservation, urban house layout, and tourism improvement in old towns, linking idea and perform in a special approach. The publication bargains an research of 3 center jap historical towns, Aleppo, Acre and Salt, all of which face major demanding situations of background conservation, model to modern wishes, and tourism improvement. It provides functional situations for the conservation and layout of old city areas and the improvement of sustainable tourism, from the viewpoint of planners, neighborhood groups and overseas tourists.The writer deals a comparative process which transcends political strife and offers invaluable classes for the opposite towns inscribed on UNESCO's international background record, specially these in constructing nations.
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A major earthquake in AD 1138 followed these sieges and killed nearly 230,000 of Aleppo’s inhabitants and this damage was compounded when the Mongolians attacked it in AD 1260 and destroyed most of the city (Tabbaa, 1997). Although the combination of these events resulted in a severe population decline, Aleppo’s inhabitants nevertheless managed to reinstate their city as a major urban and trade centre by the end of the Mamlūk period (AD 1260–1517) – a status that it continued to enjoy under the rule of the Ottomans (AD 1517–1918) (Tabbaa, 1997; Zeitlian Watenpaugh, 2004).
Part II of this book delves into the place-making processes. Chapter 4 discusses the plans and their associated projects in Aleppo, al-Salt and Acre. In particular, this chapter situates the contemporary plans within the world heritage discourse and highlights the choices for intervention strategies. It then follows with a detailed investigation of the choices made in each city’s plans and projects. Chapter 5 expands on this discussion and traces the evolution of the public participation in the world heritage discourse vis-à-vis the urban planning discourse.
In addressing these questions, the comparative case study analysis adopted a theoretical as opposed to a literal replication (Yin, 2003). Where the former seeks ‘contrasting results for predictable reasons’, the latter ‘predicts similar results’ (Yin, 2003: 5). For example, through the literal replication of the comparative case study analysis, I seek to explain how the different documentation methods had impacted the subsequent policymaking and planning decisions in these cities albeit in different ways (Sartori, 1994).
