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ASSESSING THE PUBLICNESS IN NEOLIBERAL WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT: BEIRUT POST-WAR MARINAS COMPARED

El Housseini, Dima (2023-09-07)

Since the 80s, many coastal cities around the world have invested in high-end marina developments. Despite a claim that such marinas can act as public amenities, these marinas have been criticized as a market-led development ...
Building Beirut: an Account of Post-War Homes, their Builders, and a Transforming City

Serhan Inosiemtsev, Isabela (2/10/2023)

This is a thesis about housing in Beirut: It inquires specifically about the characteristics of the housing stock produced in Municipal Beirut during the post-civil war era, and how these characteristics were influenced ...
Evaluating the Management of Biosphere Reserves in Lebanon: The Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR) as Case Study

Azzam, Norma (5/18/2022)

Economic development in Lebanon has prioritized urbanization and shifted national priorities away from environmental and biodiversity protection, jeopardizing wildlife and increasing pollution, alongside the exacerbation ...
Fragmentation in Wastewater Governance: The Case of the Southern Beirut Wastewater Network

Shokor, Nabeeha (2/8/2022)

This thesis seeks to explore one of the best known failures of the wastewater sector in Lebanon, the network in the area south of Beirut serviced by the Al-Ghadir wastewater treatment plant. Despite the fact that a pipe ...
INTRODUCING PERFORMANCE-BASED PLANNING IN CONTEXT OF RAPID URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS, THE CASE OF MAR MIKHAEL, BEIRUT (LEBANON)

Ghaddar, Ali Mohammad (9/22/2020)

My thesis explores the adaptation and implementation of Performance-Based Planning in Lebanon. It does so through the entry point of a case study in the neighborhood of Mar Mikhael (Beirut) where I adopt the findings of ...
Municipalities in Local Climate Governance: The Case Study of Menjez (Lebanon)

El Katerji, Farah (2024-02-07)

Local governments have increasingly become recognized as key players in the climate discourse. Yet, in the context of weak decentralization, their jurisdiction and influence are undermined. In Lebanon, the existing gap ...
Refugee Settlement in Ras Beirut's Modern Buildings

Dadouch, Layla (2024-02-07)

This thesis explores Syrian refugees’ settlement in a middle-class area in Beirut. It takes for case study a group of large-scale modern buildings, located in Ras Beirut and fully occupied by Syrian refugees. The thesis ...
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 ...
The Urban Recovery of Affordable Housing in Post-Blast Karantina (Beirut)

El Chamaa, Mohamad (2/6/2023)

After the August 4, 2020 explosion devastated the Karantina area adjacent to the port, throngs of volunteers and NGOs poured in to help with relief efforts, including reconstruction of damaged housing stock. With the absence ...
The Urbanization of Displacement in Informal Settlements: The Case of Raml-al-Ali in Beirut

Sinan, Racha (2/7/2022)

The thesis investigates the impacts of the flow of Syrian refugees in the neighborhood of Raml el Ali, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, looking particularly at parameters of urban livability at the scale of individual apartments ...
Using Virtual Reality as a Tool for Participatory Planning in Biosphere Reserves: the Case Study of Jabal Moussa, Lebanon

Dhaini, Ibrahim (2/10/2023)

Virtual reality (VR) is a fast-developing technology where a computer-generated environment gives the user the perception of being in a real world. A recent interest is emerging in using VR as a tool in the fields of ...

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