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  • Regenerative Place-Making of Decaying Entertainment-Retail Strips (ERS): The Case of Kaslik, Lebanon 
    Tannous, Joeyline (9/23/2020)
    Between 1975 and 1990, war-led decentralization instigated the relocation of business and entertainment activities to Beirut’s suburban expansions and peripheral coastal towns. Kaslik strongly emerged as an exclusive ...
  • Retreat to advance : landscape as coastal infrastructure in a changing climate, the case of Damour, Lebanon 
    Ali, Dana Reda (2020)
    Climate change and its impacts are currently threatening cities and landscapes all around the world; however, recent events and decades of observation show that the climate is already changing in the Mediterranean, terming ...
  • Revelations of Irony 
    Azhari, Jad (9/23/2020)
    Looking at trespass over the city in FYP 1 from Martyr Square, the space of the rich private investors and governmental headquarters, became a public space for the people. Trespassing over core values of the exclusive area ...
  • Revisiting musha lands through an ecological landscape approach : the case of Tibneen. 
    Fayyad, Reem Nabil (2018)
    The Arabic term musha‘ corresponds to undivided common lands representing particularly grazing lands, agricultural fields, forests and communal ponds that are shared by a community. Some scholars associated the terms to a ...
  • Revitalizing the old town of Sour - by Rabih Ali Shibli 
    Shibli, Rabih Ali (2006)
    Development: Revitalizing a historic city center to achieve local economic devel opment is the quest and the target of this thesis. Sour, which is a coastal city in South Lebanon, is the site chosen for the research. It ...
  • Reviving Public Places: A Landscape Urbanism Approach to Urban Recovery of Post-Blast Beirut 
    El Hajj, Tala (2/7/2022)
    Following the Beirut August 4 blast, a strong sense of community solidarity was observed, as large groups of volunteers and organizations gathered along Mar Mikhael’s streets, sidewalks, and vacant lots to coordinate ...
  • THE ROLE OF MIGRANTS IN LOCAL URBAN RESTRUCTURING AND GLOBAL POSITIONING: THE CASE OF HIGH-INCOME SYRIAN MIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS IN BEIRUT 
    Department of Architecture and Design; Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture; American University of Beirut (9/22/2020)
    Cities and migration are described by Portes (2000) as two sides of a coin. This notion outlines the strong and direct relation between them. This thesis explores high-income Syrian migrant entrepreneurs’ economic, social ...
  • Rosy Roots - The Colors of Heritage 
    Chehayeb, Tala Ghassan (5/29/2021)
    The Rose House of Ras Beirut is a very old residential mansion built in the heart of the city near the old lighthouse facing the sea. It is a very exceptional and symbolic building because of its architecture and contrasting ...
  • The Rural Nexus 
    Abdallah, Yara (5/28/2021)
    This thesis is an exploration of different strategies of intervention in the rural areas of Lebanon, specifically the rural mountains that have adopted a static presence. The current rate of expansion is leading to the ...
  • SAWIYAN 
    Adaimi, Karel (5/27/2021)
    Sawiyan is a mobile application targeting Lebanese college students going through mental conditions mainly anxiety, depression and eating disorders. The app was created to form a community among college students in an ...
  • Sectarian Border Zones As Limbo Land: Devising Resilient Urban Design Strategies for the Southern Segment of Old Saida Road 
    Hamdar, Lynn (9/23/2020)
    Since the end of the Civil War in 1990, Old Saida Road has evolved from a sectarian demarcation line into a fluid border zone serving as an economic exchange thoroughfare between two interfacing communities: the Shi‟a-controlled ...
  • Sharqawi Arabic Typeface 
    Darwish, Tala (5/26/2021)
    Sharqawi is a display Arabic family font having two styles: Black and Inline. It is inspired by Eastern Kufi scripts, having both historical and contemporary features in its geometricity, spacing and low contrast. The font ...
  • Shelter in urban displacement : a case study of Syrian refugees in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, Beirut (Lebanon). 
    Ezzedine, Dunia Mohamad (2019)
    Since the outbreak of the war in Syria in 2011, over one million refugees have entered Lebanon. In the absence of an official national response strategy, refugees have gradually settled across the country, concentrated ...
  • Social Malaise 
    Hammoud, Lina (5/27/2021)
    Social Malaise is one of the common aspects observed in the urban fabric. A domain of subjective psychological state encompassing dissatisfaction, unhappiness, despair, boredom, melancholy, disillusionment, and discomfort. ...
  • Spatial Practices of Public Life in a Contested Neighborhood: Readings from Zoqaq El-Blat (Beirut) 
    Aman Eddine, Ribal (9/16/2021)
    Post-war Beirut's profit-led development, land commodification, and spatial securitization have transformed the Lebanese capital at the expense of public life and collective spatial practices. In numbers, accessible public ...
  • A Spiraling Metaphysical Ecology 
    Saab, Julia (9/23/2020)
    The project uses the belief of re-incarnation as a tool to re-think the underpinnings we take for granted in architecture. I aim to re-think these  architectural notions and understand what the implications of re-incarnation ...
  • Strand : A collective regeneration 
    Doghlass, Nicholas (9/23/2020)
    During my thesis, I have been conducting a social practice at Strand Building in Hamra by inhabiting a space in the building and being a neighbour to its tenants. After my work and collaborative research with street ...
  • The Suspended Hang 
    Chalfoun, Jane-Mary (9/23/2020)
    This thesis is about saving dying communities with floating systems. In Thesis I, I chose to save the residents of Venice. I was inspired from spending my spring semester 2019 in Venice. And I realized that in today’s ...
  • Sustainable Development of Coastal Landscape Heritage: The Case Study of Anfeh-Hraiche 
    Ghazi, Hussein (2/5/2022)
    Lebanon's Mediterranean shore is more than 210 km long, the coastal plain extends to a width of half a kilometer, narrowing in the central part, widening in the northern and southern extremes. Historically, towns and cities ...
  • Sustainable Land Development and Management in Rural Areas: The Case of Kafra, South Lebanon 
    Farhat, Samar (8/18/2022)
    Land represents an essential natural resource for humanity and its survival. While land conservation is essential, increasing pressure on land resources may result from an over-emphasis on land’s role as an asset to store ...

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