Table of Contents

Foreword PART I MEDITERRANEAN SCENARIOS 1. Rethinking medinas in a changing Mediterranean Marcello Balbo 2. The Mediterranean: economic, social and political scenarios Raymond Behaim, Ghazi Hidouci and Gustave Massiah 3. Evolving medinas Jellal Abdelkafi PART II VISIONS AND STRATEGIES 4. Transformations of the historic city of Cairo Stefano Bianca 5. Moroccan medinas: Meknes and Azzemmour Lucien Godin and Gerard Le Bihan 6. Damascus: ‘The Jasmine Vision’ Luna L. Rajab 7. Towards a development strategy for Morocco’s medinas Anthony G. Bigio 8. Financing the rehabilitation of historic cities in the southern Mediterranean Mateu Turro and Eduard Rodriguez i Villaescusa 9. Conclusions and recommendations M. Balbo and M. Turro Notes Contributors Index

About the Author

Marcello Balbo is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Venice. He has been an international consultant for multilateral and bilateral urban planning and management projects and was coordinator of the Network-Association of European researchers on Urbanization in the South. He is the author of a number of books on urbanization and local development in the South.