dc.contributor.author |
Guadagnoli, Giulia |
dc.date.accessioned |
2017-08-30T14:29:11Z |
dc.date.available |
2017-08-30T14:29:11Z |
dc.date.issued |
2016 |
dc.date.submitted |
2016 |
dc.identifier.other |
b19020727 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/11148 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.U.P.P. American University of Beirut. Department of Architecture and Design , 2016. ET:6511. |
dc.description |
Advisor : Dr. Mona Harb, Professor, Architecture and Design ; Committee Members : Dr. Mona Fawaz, Associate Professor, Architecture and Design ; Ahmad El-Gharbie’, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Design ; Dr. Sylvain Jean Daniel Perdigon, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies ; Dr. Jihad Farah, Assistant Professor, MAPE, Lebanese University. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-216) |
dc.description.abstract |
How can cities satisfy the needs and reflect the imagination of their inhabitants? At a first glance, contemporary Beirut does not seem to offer much in this regard. Since I started walking around the city in 2010, an initial feeling of exhaustion by overwhelming physical obstacles and blind corners evolved into an enthusiasm for the solutions adopted by inhabitants to rest, trespass, bypass, and enjoy open spaces in the city. Extensive exploration led me to discover various tactical interventions—escamotages by which city users interpret, devise and adapt their urban environment, across the public private divide and along negotiable lines of agency and entitlement. In the light of various critiques of neo-liberal governmentality, and of the way this is shaping contemporary cities both globally and in the region, this thesis investigates the agency of city users in shaping the urban environment, together with—or notwithstanding—State’s and market’s regulations and interventions. Building on Lefevbre’s triadic definition of space and de Certeau’s wanderings on the invention of everyday life, I argue that user’s agency is vital to preserve a creative and inclusive practice of the public, and resist the exclusionary standardization imposed by neo-liberal rule. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (xii, 216, [8] leaves) : illustrations (some color) , maps. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
dc.subject.classification |
ET:006511 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Beirut (Lebanon) |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Neighborhood planning -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Open spaces -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Designs and plans. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Neoliberalism -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Planning. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Public spaces -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Urban policy -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
City planning -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Land use -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.title |
Tools for tactical neighborhood planning and design : lessons from user-led small scale physical interventions in municipal Beirut open spaces - |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Department of Architecture and Design |
dc.contributor.faculty |
Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut |