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    View from the Aleppo citadel (Thomas Stellmach, 2007)

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    The Prospect of Aleppo (Maundrell, 1703)

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    City of Stone - Sabeel neighborhood (Tommaso Santostasi, 2007)

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    Life in an Azizieh Street (Thomas Stellmach, 2007)

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    Northern Informal Settlements (Thomas Stellmach, 2008)

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    Existing Aleppo. Compact City

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    Green Strategy. River Qweik band, city limit park, network of neighbourhood parks

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    Towards a polynuclear city. Sub-centres and infrastructure nodes.

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    Aleppo Vision 2025

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    2008 Masterplan (Municipality of Aleppo)

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    Proposed strategic adjustments

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    Project review at Aleppo municipality (Thomas Stellmach, 2009)

Aleppo Diverse | Open City

This urban strategy for Aleppo in Syria sketches out an urban vision that reflects the city‚ its skills, people, mechanisms and potentials, and outlines a conceptual urban framework, in which they can flourish and evolve.

In contrast to the existing masterplan and a dominant culture of over-regulation – that prove to be useless given the overwhelming informality of Aleppo’s urban development – it proposes a strategy that accepts the existing forces of the city. Instead of working against them, it instrumentalises these productive urban mechanisms to secure future qualities and steer urban development.

Through principles of flat administrative hierarchies, participation, phasing, space reservation, layered decentralization, integrated mobility and the introduction of strong public spaces of various scales, it proposes to reorganize the city based on its existing structure and socioeconomic potentials. It enables and supports the city’s opportunities for future transformations and growth. Far from proposing a final state of development, it represents a tool for political debate on the direction Aleppo’s future development should take.

Downloads:
Project brochure: Aleppo Open Diverse City [18MB]
Full Report: Aleppo Open Diverse City [21MB]

Team: Thomas Stellmach, Ali Saad Consultants: Prof. Martin Schirmer, various working groups of the City of Aleppo Date: 2009-2010 Type: Commission Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ Location: Aleppo, SY Subject: ‌Metropolitan Strategies Surface: 463 km² Status: On hold Subject: Urban Strategy