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Journal articles on the topic "Urban renewal – Lebanon – Beirut"
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Nasreddine, Lara, Nahla Hwalla, Abla Sibai, Mouïn Hamzé, and Dominique Parent-Massin. "Food consumption patterns in an adult urban population in Beirut, Lebanon." Public Health Nutrition 9, no. 2 (April 2006): 194–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/phn2005855.
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AbstractObjectivesTo investigate, measure and assess the food consumption pattern of the adult population living in Beirut, Lebanon, and to identify inadequate or excessive intake of food groups particularly linked to non-communicable diseases.DesignA cross-sectional food consumption survey was conducted in 2001. Dietary habits were assessed by means of a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire.SettingDietary survey of the urban population (Beirut).SubjectsRandom sample of 444 adult subjects (aged 25–54 years) in Beirut.ResultsThe mean consumption of food by the study population was estimated to be 3030 g day−1, providing an energy intake of 2523.57 kcal day−1. Fat contributed 38.9% to the average daily energy intake, protein 13.4% and carbohydrates 47.2%. Mean consumption of fruits and vegetables was approximately 367 g day−1 and 45.3% of subjects consumed less than the recommended 400 g daily. Cereals contributed 324.5 g day−1, providing 35.0% of daily energy intake, with bread being the most highly consumed (146.2 g day−1) in this food group. The mean intake of meat and poultry products was 91.7 g day−1 and provided 8.8% of daily energy intake, with consumption of butchery products especially beef being the highest (47.6 g day−1) followed by poultry (36.1 g day−1). A low consumption of fish was noted (19.7 g day−1), with 73.6% of subjects consuming less than the recommended 2 servings of fish per week. Dairy products contributed 243.1 g day−1 or 10.9% of daily energy intake, and milk was the least consumed dairy product (56.8% of consumers). The intake of added fats and oils, excluding those in cooked recipes, was 20.4 g day−1; olive oil was not used in cooking but was added solely at the table and its mean intake was 5 g day−1. The consumption of butter was low (0.86 g day−1) and vegetable oil was the type of fat mostly used in cooking. The average intake of alcoholic beverages was low (33.6 g day−1), accounting for 0.7% of total energy intake. Women had significantly higher intakes of milk, dairy products, vegetables and coffee than men (P < 0.05). The percentage of women who reported the use of low-fat items was significantly higher than that of men. Younger people (25–34 years) ate significantly more meat, sugar, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, and consumed significantly less cooked vegetables and legumes, than older ones (P < 0.05).ConclusionsThe rather high contribution of fat to daily energy intake, the low intake of fish and the relatively high percentage of people consuming less than the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables observed in this study suggest that the adult Lebanese population is at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, obesity and other non-communicable diseases, which provides the basis for recommending increased intakes of fish, particularly fatty fish, and fruits and vegetables.
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Monroe, Kristin V. "Tweets of surveillance: Traffic, Twitter, and securitization in Beirut, Lebanon." Anthropological Theory 17, no. 3 (September 2017): 322–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499617729296.
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More than a decade ago, Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson set out to define a research program with their essay ‘Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality’ (2002). Exploring the relation between what they referred to as ‘the spatial and statist orders,’ they argued that conceptualizations of the nature of the state have not attended adequately to the ways in which states are spatialized and endeavored to show, through ethnography, how people come to experience the state as an entity with certain spatial characteristics and properties. Building on these ideas, but also moving beyond their taken-for-granted assumptions about the state’s spatiality, this essay makes use of one ethnographic case example in an effort to offer a fine-grained illustration of the spatial dimensions of the project of state securitization in the urban landscape. I do this by looking closely at the field of urban mobility in Beirut, Lebanon, and the Twitter account for the city’s Traffic Management Center, launched in late 2013 by the Ministry of Interior. Through my analysis of the spatial modes of statecraft that are produced through this Twitter account, I develop an argument about how the social media technology of Twitter serves as a portal through which to view how the state secures its legitimacy and naturalizes its authority in both virtual and physical space, while, at the same time, this technology – if only fleetingly – can be harnessed to issue challenges to this legitimacy and authority. What is at stake in the Traffic Management Center’s Twitter account, I suggest, is the production of the state as an entity that is not just powerful in the sense of being vertical to society and encompassing of urban space, but the very idea that the state offers security and protection to its citizens.
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Badaro-Saliba, Nada, Jocelyne Adjizian-Gerard, Rita Zaarour, and Georges Najjar. "LCZ scheme for assessing Urban Heat Island intensity in a complex urban area (Beirut, Lebanon)." Urban Climate 37 (May 2021): 100846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100846.
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Koussa, Houssam Al, and Tarek Nawas. "Bacterial Contamination of Urban Water Wells in the Nuwayri Region of Beirut - Lebanon." IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology 11, no. 05 (May 2017): 81–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/2402-1105038185.
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Musallam, Fuad. "The Dissensual Everyday: Between Daily Life and Exceptional Acts in Beirut, Lebanon." City & Society 32, no. 3 (September 20, 2020): 670–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12349.
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El-Masri, Maha. "Terracotta oil lamps from the excavation at the Bey 004 site (Beirut, Lebanon)." Ancient lamps from Spain to India. Trade, influences, local traditions, no. 28.1 (December 30, 2019): 423–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam28.1.24.
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The excavation of site Bey 004 in the urban center of Beirut was done as part of a major salvage-archaeology operation in the 1990s, in reparation for the redevelopment of the city after the Lebanese Civil War. War destruction had given archaeologists the opportunity to investigate the topography, history and everyday life of Beirut over the millennia since its establishment and before a new city would be built on top of the ruins in the 21st century. Terracotta oil lamps, like tableware, are a sensitive guide to the passage of time and cultures, spanning the ages the 5th century BC through the 9th century AD, from Persia to Islam. The article reviews the assemblage from the Bey 004 site, broken down by a local site typology that reflects major periods of occupation, and relates it to existing typologies of ancient Near Eastern lamps from the Canaanite to the Islamic.
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Fawaz, Mona. "Exceptions and the actually existing practice of planning: Beirut (Lebanon) as case study." Urban Studies 54, no. 8 (April 12, 2016): 1938–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016640453.
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Samaha, Petra, and Amer Mohtar. "Decoding an urban myth: An inquiry into the Van line 4 system in Beirut, Lebanon." Journal of Transport Geography 85 (May 2020): 102743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102743.
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Dada, L., R. Mrad, S. Siffert, and N. A. Saliba. "Atmospheric markers of African and Arabian dust in an urban eastern Mediterranean environment, Beirut, Lebanon." Journal of Aerosol Science 66 (December 2013): 187–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2013.09.002.
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Waked, Antoine, Charbel Afif, Paola Formenti, Servanne Chevaillier, Imad El-Haddad, Jean-François Doussin, Agnes Borbon, and Christian Seigneur. "Characterization of organic tracer compounds in PM2.5 at a semi-urban site in Beirut, Lebanon." Atmospheric Research 143 (June 2014): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.02.006.
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Samara, Rana. "Urban reconstruction in the twentieth-century : the postwar deconstruction of Beirut, Lebanon." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23703.
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In the aftermath of the succession of abortive planning schemes and the indiscriminate destruction of war (1975-1991), it is the self-inflicted pattern of destruction that has caused the most damage to the urban fabric of Beirut, Lebanon: the reconstruction process itself. Through the examination of pre- and postwar plans and strategies, this study establishes destruction as a framework in the urban history of Beirut. The eradication of cultural heritage and urban memory is evident in the demolition of half the city fabric and the privatization of reconstruction, and continues through the implementation of the proposed market-led rebuilding strategy.This thesis frames the reconstruction of Beirut within comparative methodologies of urban rebuilding in the twentieth century, namely those of post-W.W.II Europe (as manifested in Warsaw and Rotterdam) and those of contemporary market-led urban regeneration (as exemplified by London Docklands). As a critique of the proposed rebuilding of Beirut, it contributes to the re-negotiation of the process and policy of urban reconstruction at the national and international levels.
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Nabti, Jumana M. 1976. "Leveraging infrastructure : sustainable bus rapid transit route planning in Beirut, Lebanon." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17715.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-138).
This thesis applies the concepts of urban design, public transportation planning, economic development, and sustainability, to the routing and site plan of a two-kilometer bus rapid transit (BRT) line segment into downtown Beirut, Lebanon; linking a 20- kilometer BRT corridor to the region's core. Previous routing of the segment, which used typical transportation engineering processes produced routes that would degrade the line's quality of service and/or the adjacent land uses. While one route was preferred, none were compelling enough to be advanced to the next planning stage. This thesis explores the possibility that, by expanding the criteria, the route selection and design process can be used to determine an alignment that not only supports high quality transit service, but leverages the capital investment in public transportation to improve environmental quality, economic development, community livability, and transit network connectivity in the areas it serves. In turn, the inclusion of these factors should aid in successful BRT implementation by broadening the base of supporters, and by acknowledging and catering to the physical, social, and political complexity of the project and the project area, substantially increasing project benefits. The project identified a broad range of routes, and the primary institutions and constituencies affected in order to develop an alignment and site programming method to optimize support. Using public transportation infrastructure improvements as a catalyst and a mechanism by which to improve other aspects of the urban system, if successful, should not only improve the implementation likelihood, but also create greater incentives to continually expand the transit system.
by Jumana M. Nabti.
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Kanafani, Samar. "Made to fall apart : an ethnography of old houses and urban renewal in Beirut." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/made-to-fall-apart-an-ethnography-of-old-houses-and-urban-renewal-in-beirut(c9db7f27-0d4a-4e5a-b3f6-87b65b0eaae2).html.
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Since post-war reconstruction, Beirut has been experiencing a building boom, which spreadrapidly outward from the city's historic and war-torn centre to the rest of the Lebanese capital. In the process, old houses and buildings have been systematically demolished to make space forlarge towers, excluding much of the urban population. State policies and market forcesconverge to make real estate a pillar of the neoliberal economy, while offering no housing,social or economic policies to redress its gentrifying effects. This thesis scopes the conditions thatproduce decayed residences since the mid-1990s. It asks: What have these circumstancesprompted urban dwellers to do with their houses in decay? How are dwellers in differentpositions of entitlement to property differently enabled to respond to decay and impendingrenewal, in the quest for continued dwelling in the city? What sentiments and strategiesemerge from this interplay? And how have social relationships and notions of dwelling, and ofdecay been reconfigured in the process? From fieldwork among downwardly mobile tenantsand landowners, urban practitioners and a cultural collective in neighbourhoods where urbanrenewal is approaching, I propose, "institutionalised neglect" as a concept to capture thecircumstances that expedite the decay of old houses. I argue that this neglect keeps landavailable for real estate profit making while making urban renewal inevitable. In chaptersthat deal with inheritance, eviction, material decay, nostalgia and the exceptional conditionsof a commoning experiment, I reveal that dwellers' sensibilities are oriented towards prolongeddwelling close to the city centre, whether by endurance of the neoliberal building regime orattempts to extract gains from its straining conditions.
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Saad, Christian A. (Christian Antoine) 1979. "Integrated approach for the analysis and management of urban relocation and infrastructure development projects : the case of the southwestern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47910.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-209).
Relocation of inhabitants and infrastructure development for urban renewal is a main problem facing major cities and their suburbs. It is always subject to economic, political, social, cultural, religious, and environmental constraints. Urban renewal had been adopted by governments and international development agencies for years, and was subject to failure when the solution implemented did not fully account for the unique circumstances on hand. This thesis, by using a case study in Beirut, Lebanon, aims at providing a framework that integrates construction management, decision-analysis, and urban planning tools, and that offers a stronger and robust platform for solving urban relocation and infrastructure development projects. The project of Elyssar, which aims at planning, developing, and revitalizing the southwestern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, is chosen as a case study to investigate the economic/financial component of the overall multiobjective-multicriterion decision analysis problem and to suggest ways for the public sector to increase the project's revenue stream, decrease its large cost components which dominate the cash flow, and determine the cost that will need to be subsidized. This is done using the net present value and sensitivity analysis method of assessment. The results conclude that no direct benefits are encountered. The public sector will have to subsidize the project by buying upfront the social welfare and the economic improvements that are to materialize in the future. The involvement of the private sector in project implementation is also tested and the feasibility of a public-private partnership is evaluated. The outcome concludes that if the public sector shows commitment to the project, it would be attractive to procure the project through the public-private partnership format. Finally recommendations are provided to the Elyssar management as to what critical urban relocation elements and policies need to be addressed more closely to ensure the success of the project. It also encourages further research along this line to allow future integration of related factors that are social, political, and anthropological in nature.
by Christian A. Saad.
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Thomas, Mansour Émilie. "Les femmes dans Beyrouth en guerre (1975-1990). Une approche géocritique des "Beirut Decentrists"." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCA015.
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La guerre du Liban (1975-1990) a vu émerger dès son commencement une littérature féminine caractérisée par le décentrement du regard et de la représentation, qui inspira le nom donné par Miriam Cooke aux auteures femmes ayant écrit la guerre à Beyrouth : les "Beirut Decentrists". Ces dernières sont à l’origine d’un corpus prolifique et hétérogène, dont les œuvres, pour la grande majorité hybrides et polyphoniques, se rejoignent dans une interrogation sur l’espace urbain comme protagoniste, et sur la place occupée par l’auteure dans un paysage en perpétuel devenir. Ce travail de recherche, qui s’inscrit dans la géocritique, se propose d’explorer les espaces investis par ces femmes pendant la guerre. Que peuvent-ils nous apprendre sur la ville en guerre ? Surtout, quelles Beyrouth(s) possibles peuvent naître après la tentative organisée d’un urbicide par la société de milices qui a contrôlé la ville pendant quinze ans ? Le corpus couvre la totalité de la durée de la guerre, mais il comprend aussi des textes écrits dans les années qui ont suivi, indiquant la prégnance de la guerre dans le temps de l’après-conflit. En quoi le point de vue des "Beirut Decentrists" peut-il contribuer à la construction de la mémoire dans un pays qui cultive l’amnésie tout en croulant sous un « excès de mémoire » ? Ces territoires traversés et transgressés où ville, écriture et expérimentation poétique s’entrecroisent, nous permettent de mettre en perspective les notions de frontières et les considérations binaires de centre et de périphérie. En proposant une lecture géographique des textes des Beirut Decentrists, nous espérons renouveler la perspective sur la guerre, sur les femmes dans la guerre, sur la perception de la ville et la façon de faire avec la mémoire de celles-ciWhen the Lebanese war broke out in 1975, many women scattered in Beirut started writing about their feeling of being decentered. Miriam Cooke called them the "Beirut Decentrists". Their texts about the war in Beirut experiment with a variety of literary genres and devices such as hybridity and polyphony, yet all intersect around one interrogation: urban space as a protagonist and the woman writer’s role in this ever-changing landscape. This research inspired by geocriticism explores the spaces wandered by these women during the war. What can we learn about the war-torn city? Moreover, is it possible for new Beirut(s) to emerge from a fifteen-year militia-lead organized urbicide? Our corpus covers the entire war along with texts written during the postwar years. The latter giving us precious indications of how war still influences the conflict’s aftermath. What contribution can the "Beirut Decentrists" unique perspective bring to the construction of a collective memory in a country where amnesia and an excess of memory still coexist? Urban landscape, writing and poetic experimentation intersect and blend in these traveled and transgressed territories, thus allowing us to challenge the notion of border and binary narratives of center and periphery. Through a geographical reading of the Beirut Decentrists’ texts, we wish to renew the perspective on the war, on women in war, as well as the perception of the city and the ways to deal with memory
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Keilo, Jack. "Le Centre et le Nom, lectures dans la toponymie de Beyrouth." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL067.
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Nous narrons la toponymie de Beyrouth, considérée comme partie intégrante de l’idéologie du corps politique du Liban, installé à Beyrouth depuis 1920. Nous commençons par une réflexion sur les rapports entre centre politique, ses principes fondateurs, et toponymie: l’inscription toponymique est l’insertion ultime du politique dans l’aménagement. La toponymie beyrouthine inscrit le Grand-Liban (1920), et la Constitution libanaise (1926), sur les cartes. Elle inscrit le confessionnalisme politique résultant du Pacte national (1943) et ses symboles « sacrés », ainsi qu’une présence confirmée des « Orient » et « Occident » et un récit national libanais partiellement réinventé et présenté « en continuité ». Elle présente les signes d’une continuité urbaine visible. Nous mettons l’exemple beyrouthin en perspective avec ceux de Damas et de Dubaï : le premier est « réécrit » avec l’avènement du Baath en 1963 et présente une rupture toponymique avec le passé syrien pré-baathiste, ainsi qu’une présence triomphaliste du panarabisme; et le deuxième inventé afin de donner une profondeur historique à la carte de l’émirat et une dimension commerciale à ses noms des lieux. L’étude des inscriptions toponymiques, en parallèle avec les principes fondateurs du centre politique, permet d’approfondir la connaissance des systèmes politiques, leurs idéologies, et leurs politique d’urbanismeI narrate toponymy of Beirut, considered as a revelator and a marker of the Lebanese body politic, constructed in Beirut since 1920. This memoir begins by reflecting on the rapports between the centre politic (capital city or seat of government), its founding principles, and toponymy : the toponyme is the ultimate insertion of the political in everyday’s banality. Beiruti toponymy writes the Grand-Liban (1920), the Lebanese Constitution (1926), on the city’s maps. Also it inscribes political confessionalism, resulting of the Lebanese National Pact (1943) and its sacred symbols, thus a confirmed presence of « East » and « West » and a Lebanese national narrative partially re-invented and presented as a « continuum ». It also presents signs of a visible continuity of the local elite. We put the Beiruti example in perspective with those of Damascus and of Dubai : the Damascene one is « re-written » by the Baath rule since 1963 and presents a toponymic rupture with the Syrian pre-baathist past but a confirmed presence of pan-Arabism; the Dubaian one is invented in order to give a historical depth to the map of Dubai and a commercial dimension to its place names. Study of toponyms, in parallel with that of founding principles of the centre, can inform political systems, their ideological background, and their urban policy
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Hariri, Alaa Al. "Architecture as frontline: between an art of cohesion and a weapon of oppression." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19389.
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Ao longo das últimas quatro décadas, a região do Levante tem sido o palco constante
de guerras que causaram danos humanos e destruição física das cidades e das suas
infraestruturas. A violência extrema que tem atingido o território resulta na destruição
do tecido socio-urbano, não apenas durante os conflitos, como também nos períodos
de reconstrução, uma vez que afecta profundamente a memória colectiva e provoca um
enorme impacto na herança tangível e intangível das populações atingidas.
Há oito anos que um conflito devastador tem assolado a Síria, onde as cidades se
transformaram em campos de batalha. A estrutura social e psicológica foi destruída, um
terço das casas foram atingidas e mais de 12 milhões de pessoas tiveram de abandonar
as suas casas, partindo para outras zonas mais seguras ou saindo do país.
Esta disertacao apresenta uma perspectiva detalhada da cidade de Damasco e das
mudanças sociais e urbanas que culminaram no conflito actual. Também aborda
algumas das possíveis marcas que a guerra deixará no futuro, tendo em conta a nova Lei
10, que foi a resposta encontrada pelo Governo para a reconstrução das áreas
destruídas.
A investigação examina ainda os conceitos de urbicídio, espaço e memória,
relaçãoionaudo se depuiudo e a maneira adequada para lidar com as linhas sectárias e
as memórias de guerra. A disertacao apreresente Beirute como um caso de estudo,
analisando a história urbana antes da guerra civil e o período de reconstrução. Em conclusão, esta dissertação apresenta propostas para a região de Ghouta Oriental,
no distrito de Damasco, cuja principal cidade, Douma, foi palco de uma das batalhas
mais importantes do conflito sírio. Esta área foi escolhida como um exemplo de como
se poderá pôr em prática uma estratégia de unificação da sociedade, ligando a cidade
aos seus subúrbios através de um trabalho conceptual.During the past four decades, the Levant area has been a constant host for several wars that caused huge damages on the social level and physical destruction for cities and its infrastructures. This extreme violence in cities has been taken as a tool to destroy also the bonds of socio-urban fabric during the wars, and in the periods of reconstruction, which caused damages in our collective memory as well as dramatic impact in our tangible and intangible heritage. Syria has been suffering from a devastating conflict in which cities became battlegrounds for different wars for eight years and continuing. So far it caused destruction in the physical and social structure and displacement for over twelve million people internally and in other countries in addition to damages to nearly third of the Syrian houses. This dissertation presents a detailed overview of the city of Damascus, its urban and social changes over time leading to the on-going conflict. It also covers the possible impacts in the future by considering the new Law 10 which was the government response to rebuild the destroyed areas as new politic of reconstruction the destructive areas. This research examines the concepts of urbicide, space and memory, in order to define their relation and the best way to deal with division line and war memory. In addition, the research takes Beirut as a case study, by studying the urban history of the city before the civil war and the period of the reconstruction. As conclusion the dissertation presents proposals for Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, which witnessed one of the important battles in the Syrian conflict with it main city Douma. This area has been selected as a sample area to propose a vision of uniting the society through a strategy that links the city with its suburbs by a conceptual work.
Books on the topic "Urban renewal – Lebanon – Beirut"
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Khalaf, Samir. Beirut reclaimed: Reflections on urban design and the restoration of civility. Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, 1993.
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Kabbani, Oussama. The reconstruction of Beirut. Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1992.
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Gavin, Angus. Beirut reborn: The restoration and development of the Central District. London: Academy Editions, 1996.
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Sawalha, Aseel. Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and space in a postwar Arab city. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
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Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and space in a postwar Arab city. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
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(Firm), SOLIDERE, ed. Beirut city center recovery: The Foch-Allenby and Etoile conservation area. Göttingen: Steidl, 2003.
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Sawalha, Aseel. Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City. University of Texas Press, 2011.
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Two squares: Martyrs Square, Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2006.
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Two squares: Martyrs Square, Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul. Cambridge, MA: Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduat, 2006.
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Nucho, Joanne Randa. "All That Endures from Past to Present." In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon. Princeton University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691168968.003.0001.
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This chapter takes a closer look at the way in which political actors and popular discourses mobilize sectarianism as an explanation for conflict as well as justification for actions taken in the aftermath of violence, creating a sectarian narrative that appears rigid, intractable, and deeply historical. Moreover, the sectarian explanation appears to give it a sense of unending repetition. The aftermaths of three violent incidents that took place in Beirut in recent years shape the analysis: a 2009 fatal shooting in a Beirut neighborhood that was quickly forgotten; a larger street clash in Beirut in 2010 that was perceived as a harbinger of political instability; and a fight in 2011 in Bourj Hammoud that launched a large-scale eviction of Kurdish and Syrian migrant workers. This final example is explored in the most ethnographic detail and reveals just how a wholly new kind of “sectarian conflict” (between Armenians and Syrian-Kurds) emerges as an explanation in the aftermath of a violent incident.
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Al-Harithy, Howayda, and Dina Mneimneh. "The [framing] of heritage in the post-war reconstruction of Beirut central district (Lebanon)." In Urban Recovery, 239–70. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003091707-11.
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Deeb, Lara, and Mona Harb. "Good Taste, Leisure’s Moral Spaces, and Sociopolitical Change in Lebanon." In Leisurely Islam. Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691153650.003.0007.
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The preceding chapters showed how ideas about morality, space, and place come together to create specific forms of leisure for more or less pious Shi'i Muslim residents of south Beirut. Choices about leisure activities and places are informed by different moral rubrics, as people negotiate social norms, religious tenets, and political loyalties. Pastimes and their settings are assessed according to ideas about where they are located and how their patrons behave—ideas built on assumptions about the relationship between morality and geography in the city. Yet how and where a person hangs out is also an expression of personal taste. This chapter brings taste into the picture and discusses how Dahiya's new leisure sites and practices are valued along with how judgments about class, morality, geography, and politics work together to produce ideas about taste and social hierarchy. It concludes by thinking through the question of whether changing leisure practices and spaces can lead to broader social, political, and urban change.
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Daher, Aurélie. "On the Origins of Hezbollah." In Hezbollah, 17–38. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495893.003.0002.
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The groups from which Hezbollah's first members emerged are more varied than is generally asserted. Their interconnecting points and decision centers are embodied in persons other than the actors cited in the official versions. Hezbollah's appearance in the early 1980s was in fact the result of the merging of two militant Islamic networks that had developed in different regions of the country. In Beirut, they were quietist; their effort consisted essentially of setting in motion a religious renewal of society, focused on current events in the Lebanese—but also the national or global—world of the Shiite clerics. In the Bekaa, the action already consisted of mobilization favoring armed resistance, with reliance at all times on Islamic values. It follows that these two types of Shiite Islamic militancy, one cultural, the other inspiring resistance, would react in different ways to the events that shook Lebanon during the transitions of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Arif, Yasmeen. "Emotional Geographies." In Life, Emergent. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9781517900540.003.0005.
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The fourth chapter explores a span of civil violence in Beirut, Lebanon where the emphasis is about recognizing physical space as an immutable condition of violence and its afterlife - a condition that prolongs the emplacement of embodied experiences of violence in the social texts of suffering. For a city/nation that was organized around strictly defined neighborhoods of confessional communities, the onslaught of continuing violence inscribed itself onto these neighborhoods and marked them into territorially bounded places, literally transforming the ideal of a multicultural urban space into a patchwork city of confessional emplacements, which often led to extreme hostilities. The infusion of faith- based identity and experience in the density of a city scarred by violence, the afterlife here considers emotions of lost urban ideals and anxieties of destabilized cosmopolitanisms that are made acute by the memories and anticipations of devastating hostility.
Conference papers on the topic "Urban renewal – Lebanon – Beirut"
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Habib, R. R., S. H. Basma, J. S. Yeretzian, and D. Aybout. "The built environment in poor urban communities on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon." In Environmental Health Risk 2005. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/ehr050411.
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