The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa

The paper presents the key objectives for the rehabilitation of historic centers or medinas in the Middle East and North Africa as elaborated by the World Bank on the basis of twenty years of past and present lending and technical assistance operat...

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Main Authors:	Bigio, Anthony G., Licciardi, Guido
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	APARTMENTS ARCHITECTURE CITIES CITY CENTERS CITY ECONOMIES CLEANLINESS COAST COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY FACILITIES COMMUNITY GROUPS CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES CONSTRUCTION PERMITS CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CULTURAL CENTERS CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM CULTURAL MUSEUMS CULTURAL TOURISM DEMOLITION DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS DILAPIDATED STRUCTURES DRAINAGE DRAINAGE CHANNELS DWELLINGS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FEMALE FURNITURE GARDENS GENDER GENTRIFICATION GREEN AREAS HERITAGE ASSETS HERITAGE BUILDINGS HERITAGE CONSERVATION HERITAGE PRESERVATION HERITAGE SITE MANAGEMENT HERITAGE SITES HISTORIC CENTERS HISTORIC CITIES HOME IMPROVEMENT HOMES HOTEL HOTELS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT HOUSING FOR THE POOR HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING PLANNING HOUSING POLICY HOUSING PROGRAMS HOUSING REHABILITATION HOUSING STOCK HOUSING STOCKS HOUSING UNITS INHABITANTS INNER CITIES INTERVENTIONS ISLAND JA JUDICIAL PROCESS LAND ACQUISITION LAND USE LAND USE REGULATION LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIVING CONDITIONS NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS OCCUPANCY OCCUPATIONS PM POLICE POOR HOUSING PUBLIC BUILDINGS QUALITY OF LIFE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REHOUSING RESIDENCES RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS SANITATION SCREENS SETTLEMENTS SHELTER SHOPS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOLID WASTE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT STAKEHOLDERS STREET LIGHTING STREET NETWORKS SUBURBS SUSTAINABLE CITIES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TENANCY TOURISM DEVELOPMENT TOURISM INDUSTRY TOURISM POTENTIAL TOURISM PRODUCT TOURISM SERVICES TOURISTS TOWNS TRAFFIC TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSPORT SERVICES UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT AGENDA URBAN ENVIRONMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN HERITAGE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN ISSUES URBAN LAND URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN POLICIES URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT URBAN REHABILITATION URBAN SERVICES URBAN STRATEGY URBAN UPGRADING URBANIZATION VILLAGES VOCATIONAL TRAINING ZONING
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spelling	okr-10986-173822021-04-23T14:03:36Z The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa Bigio, Anthony G. Licciardi, Guido APARTMENTS ARCHITECTURE CITIES CITY CENTERS CITY ECONOMIES CLEANLINESS COAST COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY FACILITIES COMMUNITY GROUPS CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES CONSTRUCTION PERMITS CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CULTURAL CENTERS CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM CULTURAL MUSEUMS CULTURAL TOURISM DEMOLITION DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS DILAPIDATED STRUCTURES DRAINAGE DRAINAGE CHANNELS DWELLINGS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FEMALE FURNITURE GARDENS GENDER GENTRIFICATION GREEN AREAS HERITAGE ASSETS HERITAGE BUILDINGS HERITAGE CONSERVATION HERITAGE PRESERVATION HERITAGE SITE MANAGEMENT HERITAGE SITES HISTORIC CENTERS HISTORIC CITIES HOME IMPROVEMENT HOMES HOTEL HOTELS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT HOUSING FOR THE POOR HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING PLANNING HOUSING POLICY HOUSING PROGRAMS HOUSING REHABILITATION HOUSING STOCK HOUSING STOCKS HOUSING UNITS INHABITANTS INNER CITIES INTERVENTIONS ISLAND JA JUDICIAL PROCESS LAND ACQUISITION LAND USE LAND USE REGULATION LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIVING CONDITIONS NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS OCCUPANCY OCCUPATIONS PM POLICE POOR HOUSING PUBLIC BUILDINGS QUALITY OF LIFE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REHOUSING RESIDENCES RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS SANITATION SCREENS SETTLEMENTS SHELTER SHOPS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOLID WASTE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT STAKEHOLDERS STREET LIGHTING STREET NETWORKS SUBURBS SUSTAINABLE CITIES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TENANCY TOURISM DEVELOPMENT TOURISM INDUSTRY TOURISM POTENTIAL TOURISM PRODUCT TOURISM SERVICES TOURISTS TOWNS TRAFFIC TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSPORT SERVICES UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT AGENDA URBAN ENVIRONMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN HERITAGE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN ISSUES URBAN LAND URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN POLICIES URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT URBAN REHABILITATION URBAN SERVICES URBAN STRATEGY URBAN UPGRADING URBANIZATION VILLAGES VOCATIONAL TRAINING ZONING The paper presents the key objectives for the rehabilitation of historic centers or medinas in the Middle East and North Africa as elaborated by the World Bank on the basis of twenty years of past and present lending and technical assistance operations to the governments of the region. These are: 1) the conservation of the urban and cultural heritage; 2) the local economic development of the historic city; and 3) the improvement of the living conditions of the resident population. The paper presents some innovative ways to classify the contemporary users of the medinas into different catagories which then become the market segments to reach via the rehabilitation initiatives given the readically changed present role of historic cities as urban cores of much larger urban agglomerations.The paper reviews the financial and fiscal instrucments that can be used to mobilize the necessary resources, including the roles of scaled up private sector investments and of internaitonal development financing in support of national and local governments. As sustainale culutral tourism I sput forth as the main economic rationale for investment of financial reosurces in medina rehabilitation, the paper also presents an innovative multi-vriteria index to determine the tourism potential of historic cities in the region, which has been recently used in the case of Morocco for a national strategy for the rehabilitation of its historic cities. 2014-03-25T21:53:04Z 2014-03-25T21:53:04Z 2010-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/05/12390233/urban-rehabilitation-medinas-world-bank-experience-middle-east-north-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17382 English en_US Urban development series knowledge papers CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	APARTMENTS ARCHITECTURE CITIES CITY CENTERS CITY ECONOMIES CLEANLINESS COAST COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY FACILITIES COMMUNITY GROUPS CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES CONSTRUCTION PERMITS CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CULTURAL CENTERS CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM CULTURAL MUSEUMS CULTURAL TOURISM DEMOLITION DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS DILAPIDATED STRUCTURES DRAINAGE DRAINAGE CHANNELS DWELLINGS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FEMALE FURNITURE GARDENS GENDER GENTRIFICATION GREEN AREAS HERITAGE ASSETS HERITAGE BUILDINGS HERITAGE CONSERVATION HERITAGE PRESERVATION HERITAGE SITE MANAGEMENT HERITAGE SITES HISTORIC CENTERS HISTORIC CITIES HOME IMPROVEMENT HOMES HOTEL HOTELS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT HOUSING FOR THE POOR HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING PLANNING HOUSING POLICY HOUSING PROGRAMS HOUSING REHABILITATION HOUSING STOCK HOUSING STOCKS HOUSING UNITS INHABITANTS INNER CITIES INTERVENTIONS ISLAND JA JUDICIAL PROCESS LAND ACQUISITION LAND USE LAND USE REGULATION LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIVING CONDITIONS NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS OCCUPANCY OCCUPATIONS PM POLICE POOR HOUSING PUBLIC BUILDINGS QUALITY OF LIFE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REHOUSING RESIDENCES RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS SANITATION SCREENS SETTLEMENTS SHELTER SHOPS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOLID WASTE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT STAKEHOLDERS STREET LIGHTING STREET NETWORKS SUBURBS SUSTAINABLE CITIES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TENANCY TOURISM DEVELOPMENT TOURISM INDUSTRY TOURISM POTENTIAL TOURISM PRODUCT TOURISM SERVICES TOURISTS TOWNS TRAFFIC TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSPORT SERVICES UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT AGENDA URBAN ENVIRONMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN HERITAGE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN ISSUES URBAN LAND URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN POLICIES URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT URBAN REHABILITATION URBAN SERVICES URBAN STRATEGY URBAN UPGRADING URBANIZATION VILLAGES VOCATIONAL TRAINING ZONING
spellingShingle	APARTMENTS ARCHITECTURE CITIES CITY CENTERS CITY ECONOMIES CLEANLINESS COAST COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY FACILITIES COMMUNITY GROUPS CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES CONSTRUCTION PERMITS CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CULTURAL CENTERS CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM CULTURAL MUSEUMS CULTURAL TOURISM DEMOLITION DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS DILAPIDATED STRUCTURES DRAINAGE DRAINAGE CHANNELS DWELLINGS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FEMALE FURNITURE GARDENS GENDER GENTRIFICATION GREEN AREAS HERITAGE ASSETS HERITAGE BUILDINGS HERITAGE CONSERVATION HERITAGE PRESERVATION HERITAGE SITE MANAGEMENT HERITAGE SITES HISTORIC CENTERS HISTORIC CITIES HOME IMPROVEMENT HOMES HOTEL HOTELS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT HOUSING FOR THE POOR HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING PLANNING HOUSING POLICY HOUSING PROGRAMS HOUSING REHABILITATION HOUSING STOCK HOUSING STOCKS HOUSING UNITS INHABITANTS INNER CITIES INTERVENTIONS ISLAND JA JUDICIAL PROCESS LAND ACQUISITION LAND USE LAND USE REGULATION LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIVING CONDITIONS NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS OCCUPANCY OCCUPATIONS PM POLICE POOR HOUSING PUBLIC BUILDINGS QUALITY OF LIFE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REHOUSING RESIDENCES RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS SANITATION SCREENS SETTLEMENTS SHELTER SHOPS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOLID WASTE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT STAKEHOLDERS STREET LIGHTING STREET NETWORKS SUBURBS SUSTAINABLE CITIES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TENANCY TOURISM DEVELOPMENT TOURISM INDUSTRY TOURISM POTENTIAL TOURISM PRODUCT TOURISM SERVICES TOURISTS TOWNS TRAFFIC TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSPORT SERVICES UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT AGENDA URBAN ENVIRONMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN HERITAGE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN ISSUES URBAN LAND URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN POLICIES URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT URBAN REHABILITATION URBAN SERVICES URBAN STRATEGY URBAN UPGRADING URBANIZATION VILLAGES VOCATIONAL TRAINING ZONING Bigio, Anthony G. Licciardi, Guido The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
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description	The paper presents the key objectives for the rehabilitation of historic centers or medinas in the Middle East and North Africa as elaborated by the World Bank on the basis of twenty years of past and present lending and technical assistance operations to the governments of the region. These are: 1) the conservation of the urban and cultural heritage; 2) the local economic development of the historic city; and 3) the improvement of the living conditions of the resident population. The paper presents some innovative ways to classify the contemporary users of the medinas into different catagories which then become the market segments to reach via the rehabilitation initiatives given the readically changed present role of historic cities as urban cores of much larger urban agglomerations.The paper reviews the financial and fiscal instrucments that can be used to mobilize the necessary resources, including the roles of scaled up private sector investments and of internaitonal development financing in support of national and local governments. As sustainale culutral tourism I sput forth as the main economic rationale for investment of financial reosurces in medina rehabilitation, the paper also presents an innovative multi-vriteria index to determine the tourism potential of historic cities in the region, which has been recently used in the case of Morocco for a national strategy for the rehabilitation of its historic cities.
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author	Bigio, Anthony G. Licciardi, Guido
author_facet	Bigio, Anthony G. Licciardi, Guido
author_sort	Bigio, Anthony G.
title	The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
title_short	The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
title_full	The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
title_fullStr	The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
title_full_unstemmed	The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
title_sort	urban rehabilitation of medinas : the world bank experience in the middle east and north africa
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/05/12390233/urban-rehabilitation-medinas-world-bank-experience-middle-east-north-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17382
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The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa

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