Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction (Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol 47) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004099115 ISBN 13: 9789004099111

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1993

Synopsis

This volume is an outcome of a workshop on 'Lebanon's post-war reconstruction' held at MIT (Fall of 1991) to explore the role of urban planning in the rehabilitation of the country's devastated institutions and infrastructure. All chapters converge on an overriding prescriptive issue: how to rearrange common and public spaces in order to create conditions germane for peaceful and creative coexistence among groups embittered by years of protracted hostility.
The original and path-breaking contributions will deepen and enrich our understanding of the impact of protracted strife on redrawing the country's social geography and in the redevelopment of its spatial pattern and infrastructure.
Topics covered - ranging from the nature of incipient territorial identities, housing crisis, reconstituting the Lebanese economy, to hopes and visions of architects and entrepreneurs - should also inform issues of post-war development in other fragmented plural societies.

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Review

'"This book is an interesting and informative study...'A.J. Abraham, "Journal of Third World Studies, 1995.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 9004099115
• ISBN 13: 9789004099111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 297
• Editor: Khalaf Samir, Khoury Philip S.