THE ECONOMY AS AN APPROACH FOR THE UPGRADE OF HERITAGE DISTRICTS IN HISTORICAL CITIES

Abstract

There were many ways to preserve the urban heritage of historic districts in old cities, but at first, it was restoration for the monument only without regard to the urban context or the people of those areas. The following phase was a phase of urban upgrade projects, these projects objectives were preserving the monuments in the main axes like Al-Moez Street, renewal of the infrastructure of the region and encouraging tourism, but there was little interest in achieving direct economic and investment returns from historic districts upgrade projects. Therefore, the idea of this research was to study and examine whether the projects of the historical districts upgrade may return direct economic returns to the people and residents of those areas and indirectly to sustain conservation and maintenance of the monuments.