Title & Author:

Recovering Beirut : urban design and post-war reconstruction / edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip S. Khoury ; with an introduction by Richard Sennet.

Publication:

Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1993.

Description:

xxii, 297 pages, 62 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East = Etudes sociales, économiques et politiques du Moyen Orient, 0085-6193 ; v. 47

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
Introduction / Richard Sennett -- Urban design and the recovery of Beirut / Samir Khalaf -- New social realities and post-war Lebanon : issues for reconstruction / Salim Nasr -- owards a master plan for post-war Lebanon / Jad Tabet -- Reconstituting space : the aberration of the urban in Beirut / Maha Yahya -- Reconstructing and/or reconstituting the post-war Lebanese economy : the role of infrastructural development / Atif A. Kubursi -- Commentary / Jerome Rothenberg -- Lebanon's experience with urban planning : problems and prospects / Assem Salaam -- Land use problems in Lebanon / Mohamad Fawaz -- Prospects for a comprehensive master plan / Pierre El Khoury -- Hopes and fears of businessmen / Myrna Bustani, Elias Abu-Shaheen, Philip Rizik and Elie Sehnaoui -- Appendix : Chronology of Beirut's urban history / Hashim Sarkis and Samir Khalaf.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9004099115
9789004099111

Subject:

City planning Lebanon Beirut.
City planning.
Economic history.
Social conditions
Planung
Wiederaufbau
Stadsvernieuwing.
City planning Lebanon.
Beirut (Lebanon) Social conditions.
Beirut (Lebanon) Economic conditions.
Lebanon Beirut.
Beirut
Beirut (Lebanon) City planning.
Cambridge <Mass., 1991>

Added entries:

Khalaf, Samir.
Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry), 1949-
Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East ; v. 47.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252520
Call No.: BIB 182072
Status: Available