ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses alternative ideas for pedestrianisation and gentrification of the historic bazaar, combining information from interviews with primary stakeholders - local residents from the bazaar area - and with secondary stakeholders, namely non-governmental organisation (NGO) activists, policy-makers and urban planners. Historic heritage management is discussed in this text in terms of conservation planning options regarding restoration and rehabilitation as illustrated in previous studies of Cairo's historic medieval city. Hence, people's occupation of public spaces has turned into an urban social resistance against the official gentrification, privatisation and eviction policies. The General Organisation for Physical Planning (GOPP) and Institut d'Amenagement Urbain et Regional d'Île de France (IAURIF) rehabilitation strategy proposed the introduction of new public spaces in the style of European plazas, through the re-use and renovation of monuments and through pedestrianisation and traffic control measures, whilst removing various encroaching buildings.
