The Heritage for Development Programme of the AECID and the Ministry of Housing organized the 7th Meeting on the Management of Historic Centres from 27 to 30 July, at the training centre in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Meeting under the title “Urban Rehabilitation and Law in the City: the Challenge of Social Equity”, representatives of over 20 countries, mostly Latin American, presented …

In May, the Town Council of Lefkara (Cyprus) organized the annual meeting of the Charter of European Rural Communities. The theme of debate over the five days from 14 to 18 May was participatory democracy. The 170 participants, representing 26 European municipalities, organized different activities to share their experiences. In order to help visitors to integrate and give them more direct …

The workshop was organized with participation from major stakeholders of traditional architecture in Jordan. This included Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Ministry of Municipalities and other government organizations dealing with traditional buildings. In additions there were participants from Greater Amman Municipality, Jordanian Universities, Private sector and local community.There …

The RehabiMed project and its results were presented in Turkey between 10 and 13 January 2008.A conference was held at the Technical University of Yildiz on 10 January, organized by the university and the Turkish Chamber of Architects. Over 100 people attended the talks by RehabiMed’s Project Manager, Xavier Casanovas, and the architects Irem Yaylal, Aynur Ciftçi and Banu Celebioglu. A …

On 20 February, coinciding with the exhibition “Living in the Mediterranean”, the RehabiMed project was presented at La Salle School of Architecture (Universitat Ramon Llull) as part of the talk by Xavier Casanovas and Montserrat Villaverde on Mediterranean Architecture: the Legacy of Tradition. On 11 March, the project was presented at the EPSEB in the lecture “International Rehabilitation …

September the 11th saw the inauguration of RehabiMed’s pilot operation in Marrakech, with the presence of local authorities and government representatives, the RehabiMed team in Morocco and Xavier Casanovas, director of the project.The operation consisted of the rehabilitation of three historic buildings in the Medina, home to 150 people, with a view to improving their living conditions and …

Jraba Square, in the Medina of Kairouan (Tunisia), is the site of one of RehabiMeds most significant pilot operations to improve the quality of the urban space, rehabilitating a rather run-down square that is a stop on tourist routes of the town. The Medina of Kairouan was declared UNESCO world heritage in 1989 and has received many illustrious visitors in the course of its history, but today it …

The Conference through photographsFouad MaazouzClose of the RehabiMed ConferenceRehabiMed has been three years of intensive work, meetings, encounters, debates, missions, creation of contents… Like Braudel’s …

On the cover the winning photograph of the Crossed Perspectives competitionAuthor: Fouad MaazouzRehabiMed will contact the authors of the selected works so that they can send them the photographs in their original format and with the highest possible resolution. Failure to send the originals will constitute cause for exclusion from this competition. These works will be presented to the …

On 16 and 17 May 2009, in the framework of an international workshop to establish guidelines for the restoration of the city wall around Bab Antakeya, RehabiMed presented the work carried out by its team on Bab Antakeya in Aleppo. The results of the historical study conducted by RehabiMed provided key elements for drafting recommendations and the subsequent decision of the Governor and Mayor of …