Pre- Reconstruction of Aleppo City: Previous Cases, Lessons Learned

The disasters that occur in many cities throughout contemporary history, resulting in destruction and damage to both construction and human beings, should encourage decision-makers to speed up reconstruction to return to the situation before the disaster as soon as possible to erase it and its effects on the memory of the population and their lives, In accordance with sustainable government strategies and policies resulting from scientific knowledge and experiences, which are familiar with previous cases in the reconstruction process. Hence the importance of research in clarifying the concept and term of reconstruction and types of disasters and damage assessment, and studying, analyzing and describing a set of previous global, region, and local cases in reconstruction positively and negatively, And based on this, propose a set of development ideas according to administrative, legislative, architectural, urban and social axes, And then to make an assessment comparative of the proportion of matching these ideas to the current policies followed in the reconstruction of Aleppo city, and thus know the disadvantages and points of imbalance to correct it, and support the positive point and develop and emphasis on it, and access to a set of conclusions and recommendations that must be before the start of reconstruction, Which is based on learned lessons from previous cases for planning correct strategy and methodology for reconstruction, according to an executive matrix and a specific schedule that links all phases of the reconstruction and its various sectors, in parallel with sustainable development and improvement, that helping decision-makers and concerned institutions to avoid mistakes and corruption before, during and after reconstruction