Editing Aleppo (section)

===Construction===
[[File:AleppoCitadel.jpg|thumb|The restored square of the citadel]]
In the 2000s, Aleppo was one of the fastest-growing cities in Syria and the Middle East.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Report Syria 2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oDz9juos_tkC&pg=PA195 |year=2011 |publisher=Oxford Business Group |isbn=978-1-907065-34-7 |page=195 |access-date=19 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029010342/https://books.google.com/books?id=oDz9juos_tkC&pg=PA195 |archive-date=29 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Many villagers and inhabitants of other Syrian districts are migrating to Aleppo in an effort to find better job opportunities, a fact that always increases population pressure, with a growing demand for new residential capacity. New districts and residential communities have been built in the suburbs of Aleppo, many of them were still under construction {{As of|2010|lc=on}}.

Two major construction projects are scheduled in Aleppo: the "Old City Revival" project and the "Reopening of the stream bed of Queiq River":
*The Old City revival project completed its first phase by the end of 2008, and the second phase started in early 2010. The purpose of the project is the preservation of the old city of Aleppo with its souqs and khans, and restoration of the narrow alleys of the old city and the roads around the citadel.
*The restoration of [[Queiq River]] is directed towards the revival of the flow of the river, demolishing both the artificial cover of the stream bed and the reinforcement of the stream banks along the river in the city centre. The flow of the river was blocked during the 1960s by the Turks, turning the river into a tiny sewage channel, something that led the authorities to cover the stream during the 1970s. In 2008 the flow of pure water was restored through the efforts of the Syrian government, granting a new life to the Quweiq River.<ref name="station">{{Cite news |url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=277384 |title=President al-Assad inaugurates Tal Hasel water pumping plant, Aleppo |author=Shaza Qreima |publisher=SANA |access-date=10 July 2022 |date=8 July 2022 |archive-date=9 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709184201/http://sana.sy/en/?p=277384 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Like other major Syrian cities, Aleppo is suffering from the dispersal of [[informal settlements]]: almost half of its population (around 1.2&nbsp;million) is estimated to live in 22 informal settlements of different types.<ref>{{cite web |title=Madinatuna, Aleppo Cite Development Strategy: Informal Settlements |url=http://madinatuna.com/en/informals |access-date=14 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505211725/http://madinatuna.com/en/informals |archive-date=5 May 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>