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Community Improvement Projects - <div>Dedicated as it is to the in-depth rehabilitation of urban heritage in the Islamic World, <span style="font-size: 13px;">the Historic Cities Programme (HCP) of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture deals with a complex reality. For historic cities harbour an important architectural legacy that goes well beyond the realm of “bricks and mortar”. Their monuments and their traditional urban patterns speak to us about the attitudes, the aspirations and the living conditions of past generations of human beings. That is how cities gain their symbolic dimension and how they are enabled to dispense cultural identity.</span></div><div><br></div><div>While the architectural shell, due to its material inertia, tends to resist the effects of time, the more volatile <span style="font-size: 13px;">social realm is subject to changes and transformations that are not immediately refl ected in the built form </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">containing it. It is this delayed interaction between physical structures and more intangible social, emotional </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">and spiritual factors that makes interventions in historic cities particularly challenging, because once the </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">delay leads to structural incongruence, remedial action is needed.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px;">Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture</span></div>

Type

brochure

Year

2007

Dedicated as it is to the in-depth rehabilitation of urban heritage in the Islamic World, the Historic Cities Programme (HCP) of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture deals with a complex reality. For historic cities harbour an important architectural legacy that goes well beyond the realm of “bricks and mortar”. Their monuments and their traditional urban patterns speak to us about the attitudes, the aspirations and the living conditions of past generations of human beings. That is how cities gain their symbolic dimension and how they are enabled to dispense cultural identity.

While the architectural shell, due to its material inertia, tends to resist the effects of time, the more volatile social realm is subject to changes and transformations that are not immediately refl ected in the built form containing it. It is this delayed interaction between physical structures and more intangible social, emotional and spiritual factors that makes interventions in historic cities particularly challenging, because once the delay leads to structural incongruence, remedial action is needed.

Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

"An Integrated Approach to Urban Rehabilitation", ed. Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2007.

Aga Khan Trust for Culture: Media and Publications

Community Improvement Projects

Zanzibar, Tanzania

Djenné Great Mosque Restoration

Great Mosque of Mopti Rehabilitation

Old City of Herat Urban Regeneration

Herat, Afghanistan

Old City of Kabul Urban Regeneration

Kabul, Afghanistan

Asheqan wa Arefan Neighborhood Conservation

Kabul, Afghanistan

Djingereyber Mosque Rehabilitation

Komoguel Improvement Programme

Aleppo Citadel Restoration

Old Dispensary Restoration

Zanzibar, Tanzania

Timbuktu

Herat

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme: Urban Regeneration

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme: Publications, Briefs, and Exhibitions

Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Afghanistan

Egypt

English

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme

area conservation

Community Improvement Projects - <div>Dedicated as it is to the in-depth rehabilitation of urban heritage in the Islamic World, <span style="font-size: 13px;">the Historic Cities Programme (HCP) of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture deals with a complex reality. For historic cities harbour an important architectural legacy that goes well beyond the realm of “bricks and mortar”. Their monuments and their traditional urban patterns speak to us about the attitudes, the aspirations and the living conditions of past generations of human beings. That is how cities gain their symbolic dimension and how they are enabled to dispense cultural identity.</span></div><div><br></div><div>While the architectural shell, due to its material inertia, tends to resist the effects of time, the more volatile <span style="font-size: 13px;">social realm is subject to changes and transformations that are not immediately refl ected in the built form </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">containing it. It is this delayed interaction between physical structures and more intangible social, emotional </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">and spiritual factors that makes interventions in historic cities particularly challenging, because once the </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">delay leads to structural incongruence, remedial action is needed.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px;">Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture</span></div>

Type

brochure

Year

2007

Dedicated as it is to the in-depth rehabilitation of urban heritage in the Islamic World, the Historic Cities Programme (HCP) of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture deals with a complex reality. For historic cities harbour an important architectural legacy that goes well beyond the realm of “bricks and mortar”. Their monuments and their traditional urban patterns speak to us about the attitudes, the aspirations and the living conditions of past generations of human beings. That is how cities gain their symbolic dimension and how they are enabled to dispense cultural identity.

While the architectural shell, due to its material inertia, tends to resist the effects of time, the more volatile social realm is subject to changes and transformations that are not immediately refl ected in the built form containing it. It is this delayed interaction between physical structures and more intangible social, emotional and spiritual factors that makes interventions in historic cities particularly challenging, because once the delay leads to structural incongruence, remedial action is needed.

Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

"An Integrated Approach to Urban Rehabilitation", ed. Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2007.

Aga Khan Trust for Culture: Media and Publications

Community Improvement Projects

Zanzibar, Tanzania

Djenné Great Mosque Restoration

Great Mosque of Mopti Rehabilitation

Old City of Herat Urban Regeneration

Herat, Afghanistan

Old City of Kabul Urban Regeneration

Kabul, Afghanistan

Asheqan wa Arefan Neighborhood Conservation

Kabul, Afghanistan

Djingereyber Mosque Rehabilitation

Komoguel Improvement Programme

Aleppo Citadel Restoration

Timbuktu

Herat

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme: Urban Regeneration

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme: Publications, Briefs, and Exhibitions

Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Afghanistan

Egypt

English

Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme

area conservation