The Eastern Necropolis In Cairo And Its Buffer Zone
Towards A Sustainable Conservation Strategy
Overview
The Eastern Necropolis (the City of the Dead) is part of the World Heritage of Old Cairo in the URHC 2010-2012, for its Heritage and cultural value. Due to its unique position in the middle between Old Cairo and Manshiet Naser (one of the most populated slums in the world of an about one million inhabitant) the area is acting as a separator between them. It underlies a diversity of forces and conflict of policies that lead to urban informality that could ruin the sky line of Old Historic Cairo. Preserving the sky line of Historic Cairo is the aim of this study, by applying A SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION STRATEGY FOR THE EASTERN NECROPOLIS & ITS BUFFER ZONE, which will supposedly slow down further slum formation and . The research is divided into: 1)Observations: visual studies, 2)Theoretical and documentary studies; Conservation of heritage areas as an approach to regional planning, 3)Applied international studies; comparative studies 4) Field Work and Survey; Evaluation for the study zone and creating a Base Map for the Eastern Necropolis of scale 1/800, 5)Research results; Final conclusion, Proposed conservation strategy for the Eastern Necropolis and the Base Map for the Eastern Necropolis in Cairo
