Urban Recovery
Urban recovery is conceived as a process that is triggered by different acts of rupture and erasure. These acts impact both the tangible and the intangible dynamics of the city and include occupation, unjust development planning, economic decline, conflict and natural disaster. Urban recovery is therefore neither a 'post' condition nor a physically bounded process. It is intertwined with displacement, politics and power relations across temporal and geographic moments. In its extreme form, it is a process of reconfiguration that responds to all urban vulnerabilities and injustices.
This thematic area explores different models and approaches to urban recovery. It investigates how the spatial, socio-cultural, and imagined dimensions of urban existence are recovered or unarchived. The research focuses on post-war recovery of historic cities and landscapes in the Arab region, and advocates for culture as a catalyst for more people-centered, place-specific, and heritage-led strategies of recovery. In practice, it operates within a framework that is bottom-up, participatory, socially just, and inclusive.
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16.02.2021
News
Citizen Scientist Training in Karantina
- Urban Recovery
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12.02.2021
Project
Initiatives in Response to the Beirut Blast
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
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13.10.2020
Publication
Is Lebanon Becoming Another “Republic of the NGOs”?
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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Media Round Up
Beirut Urban Lab in the Media- The aftermath of the Beirut Blast
12.02.2021
- Urban Recovery
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06.11.2020
Article
Beirut’s Blasted Neighborhoods: Between Recovery Efforts and Real Estate Interests
- Urban Recovery
- Social Value Of Land
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02.12.2020
Article
Why Socio-Spatial Practices Matter to Urban Recovery
- Urban Citizenship
- Urban Recovery
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06.10.20
Article
Post-Disaster Karantina: Towards a People-Centered Heritage-Led Recovery
- Urban Recovery
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24.09.2020
News
ResiliArt Lebanon: Bridging the Past and Future through Built Heritage
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Recovery
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26.08.2020
News
The New Arab Webinar Series: Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Recovery
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15.08.2020
Article
To Pre-empt Disaster Capitalism, Beirut Urgently Needs a People-centered Recovery
- Urban Recovery
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12.08.2020
News
Howayda Al-Harithy Speaks to Wired on the Coming Recovery Efforts in Beirut
- Urban Recovery
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10.08.2020
Our Reflections
The Beirut Blast: A Week On
- Urban Recovery
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08.05.2020
Project
Levant Carta | Beirut
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
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PUBLISHED 2019
Book
Post War Recovery of Cultural Heritage Sites: Aleppo Taht Al-Qalaa
- Urban Recovery
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13-18.01.2020
Workshop
Post-Conflict Urban Recovery of Historic Cities: A Capacity Building Workshop for Aleppo
- Urban Recovery
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01-04.04.2019
Conference
City Debates 2019: At the Intersection of Displacement and Reconstruction
- Urban Recovery
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PUBLISHED 2018
Report
Beirut Zone 10
- Social Value Of Land
- Urban Recovery
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PUBLISHED 2010
Book
Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction: Case Studies from Lebanon in the Aftermath of the 2006 War
- Urban Recovery