Cairo's Architectural Heritage: The Downtown Area
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چکیده
During the period between 1860 and 1940, Downtown Cairo witnessed a major building boom that gave birth to a unique architecture combining European styles with local influences and materials. The architectural product of that era will never be equalled and we need to increase the public awareness to these historic buildings that may be less than a hundred years old. The purpose of this project is to document this endangered architectural heritage as a pilot project, using the latest technology in Geographic Information Systems (GIs) thus enabling a variety of users (for instance the municipality, historians, architects, tourists) to browse the database and to locate historic buildings.
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