Implementation challenges to the adaptive reuse of heritage buildings: Towards the goals of sustainable, low carbon cities

Adaptive Reuse of Historical Safavid Caravanserais in Iran as a Sustainable Development Strategy

“…Private investors, local authority and governmental involvement play major roles in the sustainable development of a historical site (Yung & Chan, 2012). According to Rodrigo-Cervantes (2006), adaptive reuse of caravanserais by a private entrepreneur to restaurants, hotels or hotel-restaurants must make ample profits to cover restoration and maintenance costs; otherwise, the government must be involved or cooperate in the maintenance of the building.…”

Implementation Strategies of Low-Carbon Tourism

“…The "carbon" here means green house gases, carbon dioxide mainly. In other words, it should be green travel [5][6][7][8], with light energy consumption, little pollution, and few carbon dioxide emissions. Low-carbon tourism is designed with low-carbon itineraries, equipped with eco-friendly outfit, and required low transport emissions.…”

HERITAGE-BASED SUSTAINABILITY IN PORT SAID: Classification of Styles and Future Development

“…In this approach those people become the experts on the situation via a bottom-up or action-oriented methods (Garstka, 2010;Yung & Chan, 2012). In this contest, community participation has become a worldwide issue across the field of heritage conservation with a multi-dimensional perspective to preserve social tradition and culture by fully understanding the needs of the residents (Hiyari, 2012;Yung & Chan, 2012).…”

“…Recently, the adaptive reuse of historic buildings has increasingly emerged in urban conservation, in the developing countries in particular as an approach for developing historical areas and extends the life of historical patterns (Yung & Chan, 2012). So far, there have only been a few examples of conservation with adaptive reuse of some Suez Canal's Villas, Port Fouad.…”

“…Their adaptive reuses include community associations and health care centers (Table 1). Adaptive reuse helps societies avoid the problem of demolition waste and saves the embodied energy (Yung & Chan, 2012). Sadlly, according to these definitions and the results obtained from a field survey; the adaptive reuse in the case-study buildings, Port Fouad, has not achieved its potential to prevent the partial demolition or maintain a good-looking.…”