Founded in 640 A.D, Cairo, the capital of Egypt, has a history that extends over two millennia. Established since the Fatimid era, Islamic Medieval Cairo, which is the oldest quarters of the city, is now declared as part of the world heritage. Yet, Cairo offers a vast array of architectural styles besides the Islamic one that remain poorly documented. Until recently, no legislation protected these buildings from demolition and alterations, especially those less than a hundred years old, and certainly maintenance laws were not respected. Moreover, the Egyptian government has imposed some of the most stringent rent control laws in the developing world and their effects have been devastating. Consequently, Cairo’s owners discontinued any investment in maintenance and the responsibility fell upon the tenants. Certainly, historic buildings suffered tremendously on average from a hundred years of neglect. This is the case of the Downtown area of Cairo, our area of interest, developed in the latter part of the nineteenth century extending to the first half of the nineteenth century. During the period between 1860 and 1940 in particular, a unique architecture combining European styles with local influences and materials was born. Post-1940 architecture unfortunately lost any sense of uniqueness as the international style predominated the architectural scene. The architectural product of that era (1860-1940) will never be equalled. During this period between 1860 and 1940, Downtown Cairo witnessed a major building boom that gave birth to a unique architecture combining European styles with local influences and materials. The magnificent architectural product of that era will never be equaled and no legislation protects historic buildings less than a hundred years old from demolition. Moreover, the public awareness to this heritage is still not fully formed. The purpose of CULTNAT’s Architectural Heritage of Egypt project is to document the nineteenth and twentieth century architectural heritage of Egypt, starting with the Downtown area of Cairo as a pilot project and continuing with more parts of Cairo and other cities. This project constitutes of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with an easy to browse database that includes extensive photographic documentation, all published material for each inventoried building, in addition to historic documents, maps and archival material. This massive database serves a variety of users ranging from decision makers to architects and historians. In the wealth of studies about architecture in Egypt, this is an unprecedented systematic digital approach that crowns the limited attempts of the dispersed few who have documented one aspect or another of Egyptian architecture. A series of thematic CD-ROMs, books, guides and other publications are extracted from this database serving as very effective cultural awareness tools.

Multiple Scroll Areas

You can follow the format described and demonstrated in this example to add more than one scroll area. See the example with multiple scrolling areas for guidance. Even though that example uses absolute positioning, the pattern for setting up the layers remains the same. Just remember that all id's need to be unique.

Remember to pass the id's for areas that scroll in tables to the GeckoTableBugFix function so Netscape 6+ and Mozilla will be able to extract their layers and function properly. (See code comments in the head of the document for more information.)