TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND UPGRADING OF BAB AL-WAZIR STREET BY USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Cairo is full of historical areas and important monuments that embody the richness of the city, not only as the capital of the Islamic world, but also as one of the masterpieces of human urban experiences throughout its history. With the continuous development of tools and techniques that help preserve, develop, and upgrade urban and architectural documentation, this research comes as a study that helps achieve sustainable development goals through digital technology. this research will also compare manual instruments with electronic (digital) instruments such as laser scanning, total station, geography Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning System:(GPS) such comparisons shall maximize benefits of using each of them. In additional this research shall identify various techniques and applications which promote the dissemination and use of digital heritage such as Virtual Reality, Augment Reality and Mixed Reality. in order to digitally translate and transfer this cultural heritage across generations as this legacy is owned by the World Heritage. Then it displays the search our case study is in Historic Cairo, Bab al-Wazir Street by solving some of the negative impacts on urban and architectural building that suffer from Deterioration; this research shall be Exploiting the street’s strengths, transforming weaknesses into opportunities that serve sustainability projects, and benefit from global experiences in this field. It is worth noting that these negative phenomena are sublimation globally through UNESCO, which reflects the importance of research.