Urban Regeneration Challenges of Heritage Cities Using GIS; (Luxor City Case Study)
Luxor city, as a world heritage site include a significant cultural value. The city has a range of challenges in particular has committed to protecting its heritage and its urban life. Today, Heritage Cities do have the opportunity and instruments to promote urban regeneration and architectural heritage in a way that uses and maintains Heritage as a unique mark of distinction. Museums were used as instruments in urban regeneration projects e.g. the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao that helped to tackle tourism and economic problems as well as other urban issues. The urban regeneration strategies that applied in 2007 to reimage the heart of Luxor City to be an Open air museum; involved many of successful aspects of urban regeneration aims however, others failed to success as were expected. In this light, this paper aims to focus on the impacts of those strategies and its Open air museum. Hence, GIS were investigated to explore the implications of the research by used 3D Geo-visualisation model to gain the insights by identifying and explaining the urban regeneration procedure. The paper concludes that, Luxor city need to great efforts to maintain and revitalize its identity and residents should have a better quality of life