Copyright

Lilia Makhloufi

Published On

2024-09-26

Page Range

pp. 1–8

Language

  • English

Print Length

8 pages

Introduction

Urban Heritage and Sustainability

Chapter of: Urban Heritage and Sustainability in the Age of Globalisation(pp. 1–8)
The introduction outlines the significance of urban heritage, encompassing both tangible and intangible elements, for social cohesion, cultural diversity and collective memory. It identifies how continuous urbanisation has threatened many old cities, resulting in the loss of historical structures and cultural identity. It discusses the comparative and interdisciplinary approach to urban heritage adopted in the book, and outlines the chapters’ contents, spanning case studies on the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Western Europe.

Contributors

Lilia Makhloufi

(author)
Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique D'architecture Et D'urbanisme
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8778-5132

Lilia Makhloufi is an architect and urban planner. She obtained her magister’s degree in urban planning in 2003, and her doctorate of science degree in territory planning in 2009 and her postdoctoral degree (habilitation) with accreditation to supervise research in 2019. As a teacher and researcher, she worked at the University of Constantine, the University of Jijel and since 2010 at Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme (EPAU) in Algiers. She is also a member of the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), based in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Germany. Her main research experience and international collaborations are related to housing projects, public spaces, cities and sustainability.