A Development Project for the United Nations. The Digital Survey for the Planning of East Jerusalem

Abstract

In December 2016 it was presented by the Joint Laboratory LS3D of Dicar - Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, the project “Productivity and Urban Renewal Programme in East Jerusalem (PURE)” promoted by United Nations. The project, developed in a year of activities and research carried out by the laboratory of Pavia in collaboration with University of Florence, has produced a three-dimensional database for the protection of historical heritage and a project for the architectural renovation of the complex system of buildings on the streets of Salah Eddin and Sultan Suleiman, adjacent to the walls of the historic city of Jerusalem. The project, funded by the European Union and by the Islamic Development Bank has covered, in addition to the measurement of a portion of the city and the monumental cemetery of Bab Azhar, a census of all the infrastructures, commercial activities and an analysis on the structural condition of buildings. The result is a virtual platform from which to assess the development of the historic city and through which give life to the city of the future.