Planning Actors and Scales
This theme examines the roles of formal and informal actors in the (re)production of the built and natural environments, across scales, and the impacts of actors’ policies and strategies on people’s access to housing, basic services, and public space. The actors we study include: public agents, municipalities, international actors, religious groups, political parties, real-estate developers, banks, firms, refugees, vulnerable populations, informal service providers, NGOs, CBOs, and others. More specifically, we analyze (i) actors’ discourses on, and representations of space, (ii) the range of planning, financial and legal tools being mobilized, (iii) the organization of actors in multi-scalar networks where political exchange and legitimization abound, (iv) the policy and projects’ outcomes on people’s livelihoods, and (v) the ways in which dwellers navigate and contest unjust and unviable urban policies and interventions.
This theme also seeks to understand how contemporary territorial transformations trump policy-making undertaken within regional and local governments or sectorial ministries confined to rigid administrative boundaries. We advocate instead for management and planning approaches and tools that recognize the ever-changing social and ecological dimensions of the built and natural environments, and that prioritize integrated people-centered and viability goals.
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03.03.2021
News
Ensuring the Commons in Fragile Contexts
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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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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11.11.2020
Webinar
Debate Around "Ramlet Beirut"
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Social Value Of Land
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29.09.2020
News
Z-Axis 2020: You and Your Neighborhood Lecture Series
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Spatial Practices
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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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04.08.2020
Documentary
Ramlet Beirut
- Social Value Of Land
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Informality
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ONGOING
Project
The Territories of the Covid-19 Response in Lebanon
- Planning Actors and Scales
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09.06.2020
Project
Beirut: A City for Sale?
- Social Value Of Land
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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03.06.2020
Project
Mapping Security in Beirut: A Decade of Research
- Spatial Practices
- Critical Mapping
- Planning Actors and Scales
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Webinar
Brown Bag Presentation: The Territories of COVID-19 Response in Lebanon
22.05.2020
- Planning Actors and Scales
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Project
Narrating Beirut from its Peripheries
07.05.2020
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Informality
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Webinar
The Right to Housing in COVID-19 Lockdown Times
16.04.2020
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Citizenship
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PUBLISHED 2013
Book
Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shiite South Beirut
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Spatial Practices