CAIRO
Revitalising a Historic Metropolis

Edited by Stefano Bianca and Philip Jodidio
256 pp., 21.5 x 27.8 cm, 100 col, 150 b/w
Hardback, € 45

The creation of the 30-hectare (74-acre) Al-Azhar Park, undertaken in the historic district of Cairo by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, is a catalyst for urban renewal in one of the most congested cities in the world. The book documents how the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has turned a centuries-old rubble dump into a park, restored 1.5 kilometres of 12th century Ayyubid Wall and revitalised the adjoining neighbourhood of Darb al-Ahmar.

The volume, the first in the series devoted to the projects of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, describes both theconstruction of the Park and the methods by which the Trust is integrating environmental and social development so as to improve the overall quality of life in a neighbourhood where decline was once considered inevitable. The broader context of urban rehabilitation in historic cities is also explored.

Contributors include Nasser Rabbat, Professor of Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, and Robert Ivy, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record.

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