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PhD ThesisConservation officers are faced with many problems when dealing with applications for
intervention in urban heritage areas. The process involves reviewing different categories
of heritage resources and legislation; understanding and relating together different
heritage values; applying different kinds and levels of analysis; contacting the various
stakeholders and accessing diverse digital and paper based documents. Such processes are
largely tedious, time consuming and are generally inefficient (Morton, 1996a; Angelides,
2000). Despite the intention of many heritage organizations to identify models that can be
used for managing decision-making in urban heritage areas, as yet no information model
exists that is capable of properly and dynamically appraising such areas. The lack of such
a model has exacerbated the difficulties and conflict in the selection and assessment of
alternative intervention strategies in urban heritage areas. The diverse range of heritage
categories, values, stakeholders and types of data related to the conservation of urban
heritage resources provide a challenge in developing an adequate information model for
informing the management of intervention. ICT based on a combination of Geographical
information system (GIS), surveying, visualization and database packages can help in
urban heritage appraisal process. However, efforts to apply the recently developed ICT to
urban heritage recording and appraising have not yet fully come to fruition (Ford et al,
1999). Generally, efforts have only been concentrated on the use of ICT as a records
database, (Sahib, 1993) rather than making more use of their analytical capabilities.
This study develops a theoretical framework to help the full understanding of the
categories of urban heritage resources, values and the identification of the constraints for
using ICT in the urban heritage appraisal process. The aim is to develop a decision
support system for intervention in Lebanese urban conservation areas.
The effects of war, negligence and conservation plans have been the main factors causing
destruction of the urban heritage in Lebanon. Appraisal is a necessary step to define the
major components which contribute to the character of urban heritage. It is a first step
towards the future development of heritage policies with regard to heritage management,
conservation and enhancement (English Heritage, 1997a-b).
This study creates, according to a developed theoretical framework, a prototype model for
the appraisal of urban heritage areas. The study takes the medieval centre of the city of
Tripoli as a case study. This centre is the unique sole depository of Mamluk art and
architectural treasures in Lebanon
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