Abstract
A Historic Commercial Street is a key socio-economic component in cities, which has encompassed social, cultural and economic activities. Owing to different challenges (new way of consumption, urbanisation pressure), historic commercial streets have been declining, which has not only affected the physical, social and commercial activities but also negatively impacted on the streets’ tangible and intangible heritage assets.
In the City of Alexandria, Egypt, the historic commercial streets have been exposed to tangible and intangible urban shifts and decays, which has transformed their historic image and atmosphere and thus weakened their heritage significance. Thus, since development is inevitable, this article aims to identify a strategic approach for the revitalization of the physical built environment of the historic commercial street and achieve a win-win situation that balances heritage preservation and development dynamics, focusing on Safeya Zaghloul Street as a case study in the city.
Historic and archival investigation has informed the understanding of the street’s historic transformations and defining the gap between the place's cultural heritage and the development dynamics. An empirical analysis was adopted to assess the current physical, functional and cultural challenges of the historic centre and the selected street, while a deductive approach was followed to identify the revitalisation attributes and determine the strategic rejuvenation approach for the historical commercial street.
The article concludes to a transferrable strategic approach that could be utilised to revitalize the Historic Commercial Street component of the city, and the produced strategy will be visualised on the selected case study, Safeya Zaghloul Street.
In the City of Alexandria, Egypt, the historic commercial streets have been exposed to tangible and intangible urban shifts and decays, which has transformed their historic image and atmosphere and thus weakened their heritage significance. Thus, since development is inevitable, this article aims to identify a strategic approach for the revitalization of the physical built environment of the historic commercial street and achieve a win-win situation that balances heritage preservation and development dynamics, focusing on Safeya Zaghloul Street as a case study in the city.
Historic and archival investigation has informed the understanding of the street’s historic transformations and defining the gap between the place's cultural heritage and the development dynamics. An empirical analysis was adopted to assess the current physical, functional and cultural challenges of the historic centre and the selected street, while a deductive approach was followed to identify the revitalisation attributes and determine the strategic rejuvenation approach for the historical commercial street.
The article concludes to a transferrable strategic approach that could be utilised to revitalize the Historic Commercial Street component of the city, and the produced strategy will be visualised on the selected case study, Safeya Zaghloul Street.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Heritages: Past and Present - Built and Social |
Subtitle of host publication | A Conference on Culture, History, Art and Design |
Editors | Jitka Cirklová |
Publisher | Architecture Media Politics Society |
Chapter | 29 |
Pages | 290-307 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Publication status | Published - 30 Mar 2024 |
Event | Prague Heritages- Past and Present, Built and Social: A conference on culture, history, art and design - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 28 Jun 2023 → 30 Jun 2023 https://amps-research.com/conference/heritages-prague/ |
Publication series
Name | AMPS Proceedings Series |
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Publisher | AMPS |
Number | 35.3 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2398-9467 |
Conference
Conference | Prague Heritages- Past and Present, Built and Social: A conference on culture, history, art and design |
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Country/Territory | Czech Republic |
City | Prague |
Period | 28/06/23 → 30/06/23 |
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