ARCHİTECTURAL HERİTAGE MANAGEMENT AND RESİLİENCE OF SMALL AND MEDİUM CİTİES İN NORTH WEST SYRİA

Resilience is considered a central and important point for the ability of cities to confront various disasters and crises and to continue providing services through the resources they possess. Architectural heritage is considered one of the most important assets that most cities possess, but until now, through studying the literature, the relationship between it and the city’s resilience is unclear and has not received sufficient attention. The research highlights the relationship that architectural heritage and its management can play in city resilience (cities in post-war and post-disaster contexts), as medium and small Syrian cities in northwestern Syria are witnessing more than a decade of conflict, in addition to the February 2023 earthquake. The research attempts to find this relationship by adopting the Rockefeller resilience framework as a tool for analyzing and evaluating the resilience of the city of Ariha, finding the positives and negatives, proposing solutions, then classifying them into categories and developing solutions related to architectural heritage management to determine the extent of heritage’s ability to improve resilience. Keywords: Architectural Heritage Management, Resilience, Rockefeller framework, Medium cities, Small cities, Post-War, Post-Disaster.