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Article: Historic Cairo. (rehabilitation of Cairo's historic monuments)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Cairo is the greatest city of Africa and perhaps of the whole Muslim world. But the extremely precious historic core, from which today's huge metropolis grew, is in great danger. Jim Antoniou explains how the city developed and how lessons can be derived from the past to give hope of a living city genre.
Historic Cairo is the crumbling core of the largest city in Africa. The city now spreading over more than 450sq km, occupied by some 16 million people, has severe housing shortages and an unemployment rate of 20 per cent. In contrast to the metropolitan area, many of the historic district are ruinous and given over to virtual slums. Here, poverty, unemployment and ...