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Khalid El Harrouni

Published On

2024-09-26

Page Range

pp. 125–140

Language

  • English

Print Length

16 pages

6. Sustainable Urban Conservation of Historical Cities

The Case of Fez Medina, Morocco

Chapter of: Urban Heritage and Sustainability in the Age of Globalisation(pp. 125–140)
Chapter Six sheds light on the densification of old neighbourhoods, which affects many historic cities in North Africa. Khalid El Harrouni describes and analyses the rehabilitation process of the old city of Fez, Morocco, including its main stages and components over the last thirty-five years. This case study reveals the constraints governing sustainable conservation as well as best practices and dynamic approaches to safeguarding the urban heritage of old neighbourhoods, like expansive stakeholder participation and social engagement in housing rehabilitation, particularly in the case of housing units at risk of collapse.

Contributors

Khalid El Harrouni

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-6889

Khalid El Harrouni is a full professor of civil engineering and computational mechanics and UNESCO Chair ‘Education and Research on Sustainable and Bicoclimatic Urban Planning and Architecture’. As the deputy director of research at Ecole Nationale d’Architecture (ENA) in Rabat, Morocco, he is responsible for the Doctoral Studies Centre ‘Architecture and Related Disciplines’ and serves as scientific coordinator for the research theme ‘Sustainability in Architecture and Urbanism’. He is also the editor-in-chief of African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism and an expert member of the two International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) International Scientific Committees on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage, and Energy and Sustainability. He has more than thirty-five years of research and professional experience in civil engineering, urban planning, building energy efficiency, advanced computational techniques, and heritage architecture.