Responsiveness of Urban Renewal in Historic Quarters

Over the last few decades rapid urban renewals of the city have a major challenge on sustainable development that integrate cultural heritage and future aspirations for urban environment. Now a day’s economic growth and new property development have been the dominant orientation in most countries. Such preference economic development has led to the destruction of numerous historic urban fabric. This book therefore aims to assess the responsiveness of current urban renewal practices in historic quarters through the international urban conservation principles and theories and to draw recommendations and alternative proposals which can steer the process of urban renewal in historic city quarters. This work can be especially useful to government officials who run redevelopment of a city professionals in urban planning urban conservation or anyone else who may have a stake in redeveloping the historic city quarters.