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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24.07.2023
Audio Recording
Commoning amidst Disasters and Dysfunctional States: Actors and Governance of the Urban Recovery of Beirut
- Planning Actors and Scales
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06.07.2023
Talk
Talk: Twilights and the Weathering of State Dreams: A Social History of the ‘Director General’ in Lebanon (1960-2020)
- Planning Actors and Scales
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13.06.2023
Interview Q&A
The Battle for Beirut's Urban Spaces: MEMO in Conversation with Mona Harb
- Planning Actors and Scales
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25.05.2023
Virtual Discussion Series
Housing Uncertainties, Financial Crisis, and Social Protections
- Social Value Of Land
- Planning Actors and Scales
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24.05.2023
Article
Limits of Reforms and Conditionalities in Lebanon's 3RF
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Recovery
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11.05.2023
Talk
Twilights and the Weathering of State Dreams: A Social History of the ‘Director General’ in Lebanon (1960-2020)
- Planning Actors and Scales
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27.04.2023
Public Seminar
BUL and TPI hold Disaster Governance seminar on the recovery of Beirut after the Port Blast
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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19.04.2023
Book Chapter
New Book Out! TheoriSE, debating the southeastern turn in urban theories by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon
- Planning Actors and Scales
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07.02.2023
Public Seminar
Disaster Governance: The Recovery of Beirut After the Port Blast
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Recovery
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09.11.2022
Our Reflections
Disaster Governance and Aid Effectiveness: the Case of Lebanon’s 3RF
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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28.10.2022
Webinar
Urban Politics in the Arab Region
- Planning Actors and Scales
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18.08.2022
Project
Beirut Land Dialogues: Pathways Towards Recovering the Social Value of Urban Land
- Social Value Of Land
- Planning Actors and Scales
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26.05.2022
Video
"Beirut: A City for Sale?" Explainer Video
- Social Value Of Land
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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14.06.2022
Seminar
BUL at the Reset Dialogues on Civilizations - Venice Seminars 2022
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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28.04.2022
Project
Actors and Governance of the Beirut Port Blast Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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13.04.2022
News
Beirut Urban Lab at the first National Urban Forum (NUF1) in Lebanon
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Citizenship
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30.03.2022
Project
Mapping NGOs Repairs
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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29.03.2022
Interview Q&A
Connecting the Country Economically Through Urban Planning
- Urban Citizenship
- Planning Actors and Scales