For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

by Hiba Bou Akar

Book Overview

Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seeking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503605604
• ISBN13: 9781503605602
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"