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Tag Archives: public space
Feature: Critics Wary of Plan to move Stadium
Recently in The Daily Star, Lysandra Ohrstrom covered the controversy surrounding Beirut Mayor’s announcement to demolish the city’s Municipal Stadium and build a community center instead. Ohrstrom interviewed Fadi Shayya on this issue as in the article below “Critics Wary… Continue reading
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Category Media, News
Tags beirut, design politics, ecological infrastructures, interviews, public space, urban governance
Feature: Is Tripoli Ready for A Sea Change?
Recently in Bold Magazine, Daria El Samad interviewed a number of experts and stakeholders about the land reclamation project proposed as a development strategy in Tripoli. Below is an excerpt of the article titled “Is Tripoli Ready for A Sea… Continue reading
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Category Media, News
Tags design politics, environment, lebanon, public space, reclamation, urban planning
Recognizing the Invisible Monument
Can public space remain neutral to conflict and emptied of political meaning in a neoliberal socio–spatial context that promotes formal aesthetics while society strives to transcend the post–colonial and post–modern conditions in the most brutal way: civil war? The war… Continue reading
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Category Book Sections
Tags beirut, collective memory, design politics, division, post-war, public space, urban design, urban governance
Revisiting Open Space Provision in Beirut
In a country like Lebanon with a notorious reputation of being chaotic and hectic, it might be hard to believe that the professions which promote organization and structure, such as urban design, have considerable impact on shaping urban settings.
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Category Blogs & Periodicals
Tags beirut, design culture, post-war, public space, urban design
Feature: Hay Festival Discusses the Cuts that Divide and Bind
Recently in The Daily Star, Niamh Fleming-Farrell’s article “Hay Festival discusses the cuts that divide and bind” reviewed the panel “Checkpoints of memory in a post-war city” that took place at during the Hay Festival Beirut on July 4, 2012… Continue reading
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Category News
Tags beirut, collective memory, post-war, public space, urbanism