Reconstruction and Recovery

On the European Corporates’ Vision of the Beirut Port Reconstruction:

Proposed Priorities versus People's Priorities

Even when a solution brought by private companies might seem like a source of hope for the neighborhoods destroyed by the Beirut Port explosion, it only proposes a replica of the reconstruction catastrophe …

Study

How did Official Authorities Tackle the Housing Crisis Caused by the Beirut Port Explosion?

Hours after the port explosion devastated Beirut, the governor, Judge Marwan Abboud, appeared tearfully on television, declaring that about 300,000 people had become homeless in the Lebanese capital. With this news, individuals, organizations, …

Research-Based Article

Removing Dwellers From Their Neighborhoods’ Reconstruction Process

The state’s recklessness has opened the way for unreliable relief operations, waste of money, time and efforts, in addition to ambiguity in the path and fate of donation funds. The ruling class is …

Investigation

The Nature of Communal Involvement in the Reconstruction Projects in Lebanon

This article is a call to consider communal engagement a creative process, centered on professional designers’ means of communication and insight. To justify the argument, we first address two reconstruction projects located within …

Investigation

The Tarik Jdideh Explosion:

Where Are the People in the Aftermath of the Forgotten Explosion?

After a large explosion claimed casualties, destroyed a number of apartments, and terrified the people of the area, the results of the Tarik Jdideh explosion disappeared from the breaking news and evening bulletins, …

Research-Based Article

Comments about the law for the Protection of affected areas and the support of its reconstruction:

Encouraging Property Monopoly in the Name of Sectarianism

In its legislative session on September 30, 2020, the Parliament ratified the law for the Protection of the areas affected by the explosion in the port of Beirut and for the support of …

Activity

Urban Struggles in the Arab Region

Exchanging Experiences and Methodologies

Public Works Studio, in collaboration with Professor Heba Bou Akar from Columbia University, organized a series of online seminars focusing on experiences, frameworks, and methodologies for addressing the challenges of urban realities in …

Project

Rehabilitation of Ajial Youth Center in Nahr al Bared Camp

Since the 2007 war on Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, the urban environment in the camp, which has been almost completely destroyed, has not been rehabilitated. By working on the architectural design …