Emphasizing the Role of Craftsmanship in Urban Planning Interventions to Promote Tourism- Case Study Zaanse Schans, the Netherlands.

Document Type : Research Studies

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1 Master student, Mansoura University, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture department

2 Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt

3 Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering

Abstract

This paper focuses on the importance of the crafts in documenting history, in addition to the strategies to integrate crafts in economic development plans. There is a need for exploring new development approaches to vitalize Egyptian economy and tourism. The research was oriented to developing tourism development plans that depend on crafts. Similar cases were analyzed where development strategies were carried out in a craftsmanship zone that resulted in turning them into international attraction destinations for crafts. The research attempts to develop a framework that can help formulating strategies for interventions in crafts area and assess challenges that can be faced to turn it into a craft tourism zone. The paper studied one example to support the applied method of the framework. By this solution, we can find a way to build our communities.

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