Neighborhood Initiative: Recent submissions

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People Places: New Student Designs on the Neighborhood Exhibition - Surveying Regional Architecture

Arbid, George; Assi, Naji; Kanaan, Joy; Nasrallah, Maha (2005)

In the summer of 2005, the course investigated 1950s and 60s apartment buildings in Ras Beirut. The drawings presented here are accompanied by analytical reports transcending the individual buildings to cover the urban ...
People Places: New Student Designs on the Neighborhood Exhibition - Reaching out

Shebli, Rabih; Chmaitelly, Hala (2010)

Recognizing that the AUB Campus is blocked from its surrounding neighborhood, students were asked to come up with creative ways to overcome this separation and to increase interaction between AUB and its neighbors. Students ...
People Places: New Student Designs on the Neighborhood Exhibition - Function Duality

El Aris, Balsam; Shebli, Rabih (2008)

Hamra is one of Beirut’s most dense urban settings: a district where commerce, residence, education, and services come together to form a hybrid context that is charged with the dynamics of movement and change. However, a ...
Housing Supports at Other Universities

Myntti, Cynthia (2011)

Neighborhood Initiative prepared this report for the AUB President’s Housing Task Force. It summarizes what other universities offer in supports for housing rental and purchase.
Urban Planning Research Methods/ Students 'Consultants' to the Neighborhood Initiative

Harb, Mona (2012)

Students in this urban planning class recommend new projects for the Neighborhood Initiative to consider.
Community Mapping - Jeanne d'Arc

Saikali, Maya (2013)

As part of the graphic design course (GD203) 'Design in the Community', in Spring 2013, students were asked to create a map of a Ras Beirut Street, in this case Jeanne d'Arc, based on a particular interest they would map. ...
Ras Beirut Well-Being Survey

Kaddour, Afamia (2011)

The Ras Beirut Well-Being Survey is the first detailed study of Ras Beirut and Ain Mreisseh since Hamra of Beirut was published in 1973. The survey examines the social and economic determinants of health and well-being.
The Challenge of Housing for AUB

Myntti, Cynthia (2010)

This Neighborhood Initiative report examines the problem of the lack of affordable housing near AUB, and recommends measures to address the problem.
AUB's Options for Housing in the Neighborhood: Preservation and Investment Strategy

Blaik, Omar (2007)

This report summarizes the recommendations of Omar Blaik, consultant to the Neighborhood Initiative in 2008, for promoting affordable housing in Ras Beirut.
Analysis of Legal Frameworks in Lebanon for Affordable Housing

Abdelsater-Abusamra, Nada (2008)

This study provides preliminary legal analysis of the structures and mechanisms available in Lebanon to protect the affordability of housing in perpetuity. They include: the waqf, servitudes, shifa’a pre-emption right, ...
Assessing Demand by AUB Faculty and Staff for Housing in Ras Beirut

Haluk Koksal, Mehmet (2008)

This on-line survey of faculty and staff examined current and preferred housing characteristics.
Survey of Built Environment Near Campus

Neighborhood Initiative; Al Naghi, Hani (2010)

A compilation of the various GIS (Geographic Information Systems) layers that were used in different studies conducted as part of the AUB Neighborhood Initiative program. Data has been gathered from research and students' work.
University for Seniors Feasibility Study

Sibai, Abla (2010)

A feasibility study comprising focus group discussions, an alumni survey, and a review of the experience of other programs convinced AUB that a peer-led educational and cultural program for older adults at AUB would be ...
Greening AUB’s Neighborhood II

El-Fadel, Mutassim (2011)

This student research (Final Year Project, Civil and Environmental Engineering) explores the feasibility of creating rainwater catchment systems for different types of buildings in Ras Beirut.
Greening AUB’s Neighborhood I

Makhzoumi, Jala (2008)

The project explores landscape design approaches to improve the visual and environmental quality of AUB’s neighborhood.
Student Commuting Survey

Neighborhood Initiative (2007)

This survey, conducted in 2007 by the Neighborhood Initiative and the Office of the Registrar, answers the questions: where to AUB students live and how do they get to campus?
People Places: New Student Designs on the Neighborhood Exhibition - Revisiting Hamra

Daher, Rami; Jabr, Abdul-Halim (2007)

When we organized the studio beginning of 2007 we were motivated by our fascination for Hamra’s vigor and diversity, coupled with fear that this might be eroded by looming real estate speculation. Hence, the Studio is ...
People Places: New Student Designs on the Neighborhood Exhibition - Fences and Neighbors

Nasrallah, Maha; Chmaitelly, Hala; Kossaifi, Gressy; Sharara, Massa (2008)

Taking the Master Plan of AUB as their guideline, the students were asked to work on the AUB fences and gates along Bliss Street. The aim of this project was to observe and analyze the two sides of the fence, constantly ...
People Places: New Student Designs on the Neighborhood Exhibition - University City Interface

Saliba, Robert (2007)

The Bliss Area adjoining the southern edge of AUB campus is a vibrant commercial, entertainment and residential hub highly valued by university faculty and the city inhabitants at large. It has been overtaken in the last ...
People Places: New Student Designs on the Neighborhood Exhibition - Architecture Final Year Projects

Arbid, George; Assi, Naji; Weltzien, Julie (2008)

These projects were prepared by students as their final year projects for their Architecture and Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management degrees.

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