17.02.2023
Our Reflections
In Memory, Habib Debs
Habib Debs left us too soon, on February 10th, 2023.
Since the early 1990s, Habib Debs has been involved in nearly every battle to improve urban planning and design in Lebanon (and beyond), its standards, methods, and practices. A champion of cultural heritage protection, a gifted public space designer, and a leading figure in city planning, he will be remembered for his incredible talent, innumerable contributions, deep humanism, and his role as an engaged citizen fighting for a more just and secular country.
10.08.2021
Our Reflections
Launching an Urban Observatory Amidst a Painful and Slow Recovery
One year after the Beirut port blast, we remain in awe at the social mobilization that continues to surround the people in the neighborhoods affected by the explosion. Over 12 months, and amidst devastating, economic, political, and health crises, city-dwellers—organized or not, working side by side with a large array of local and international organizations, are still struggling to repair homes, businesses, schools and hospitals and restore the viability of their city.
28.11.2023
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for Research Committee 21 Conference Santiago 2024
As part of the RC21 conference held in Santiago, Chile, next July 24-26, 2024, the Beirut Urban Lab is co-organizing Panel 9: South-South collaborations and dialogues: variegated epistemologies, knowledges, and experiences for postcolonial urban studies, along with colleagues Javier Ruiz-Tagle (Universidad Católica de Chile), Mercy Brown-Luthango (University of Cape Town), and Divya Ravindranath (Indian Institute of Human Settlements). We invite interested researchers to submit their abstracts by December 31, 2023.
25.05.2023
Virtual Discussion Series
Housing Uncertainties, Financial Crisis, and Social Protections
Join us throughout June 2023 for a series of online presentations and discussions on Housing Uncertainties, Financial Crisis, and Social Protections with leading scholars and practitioners working towards the right to housing, who will explore comparatively questions at the intersection of housing inequalities, forced displacement, and financialization. The online series concludes with two roundtables probing the possibilities afforded by social protection schemes to respond to the increasingly dire living conditions of today’s urban majorities.
Tuesdays 6, 13, 20 & 27 June 2023, at 5:00 pm Beirut Time (GMT +3)
