Quality of Life Indicators in Value Urban Areas: Kasr Elnile Street in Cairo

This research focus on two issues: the quality of life, as it is one of the international new issues, The other issue is rehabilitation of heritage areas. The research states a way to link them to each other, to form a more comprehensive and a more in-depth approach, to deal with heritage areas. The research also studied the Egyptian experience, through criticizing and analyzing it. This is done to see how to deal with heritage areas through a theoretical study of the guidelines, and also through the project of rehabilitation Kasr El-Nil St., In the central business, district in Cairo. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia