L’identification d’un ensemble urbain du XXème siècle en Egypte : Héliopolis, Le Caire

Abstract

From 1997 to 2001, Heliopolis – a town situated ten kilometres from Cairo, founded in 1906, at the instigation of Baron Edouard Empain and his associate, an engineer named Boghos Nubar pacha – was at the centre of a study project dealing with the local heritage, and led by URBAMA laboratory in Tours. The survey took place in two stages: first a preliminary research phase concerned with providing outlines for the requalification of public spaces in view of the expected impact on the restoration of private buildings; then, a further study, the results of which will be available by means of a geographical information system (GIS), to the scale of each plot and building. The study will be concerned with a 280–hectare area comprising some 2 000 buildings which constitute the historical heart of the old town.

Keywords

• urbanisme
• inventaire du patrimoine
• Egypte
• Le Caire