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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11.08.2023
Project
Three Years of Post-Blast Observations
- Urban Recovery
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21.07.2023
Research Paper
The Co-Production of a Shared Community Space in Al-Khodor, Karantina, in the Aftermath of the Beirut Port Blast
- Urban Recovery
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08.06.2023
Call for Papers
The Urban and Local Dimensions of Political Violence in Syria and the Middle East
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
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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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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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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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2020-2022
Report
An Urban Recovery Strategy for Post-Blast Karantina
- Urban Recovery
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16.12.2022
Video
Sahat el Elfeh: A Spatial Intervention in Al-Khodor Sub-Neighborhood
- Spatial Practices
- Urban Recovery
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12.12.2022
Project
Oral Narratives by the Residents of Karantina
- Urban Recovery
- Spatial Practices
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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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25.10.2022
Public Presentation
Presentation of the Urban Recovery Strategy for Post-Blast Karantina
- Urban Recovery
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15.07.2022
Project
AUB launches a new platform, Precarious Lives - Housing Uncertainties in Beirut
- Social Value Of Land
- Urban Recovery
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13.05.2022
Article
Demolishing the Beirut Port Silos Will Deepen Lebanon's Collective Amnesia
- Urban Recovery
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30.03.2022
Project
Mapping NGOs Repairs
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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23.03.2022
Conference
In-Crises Planning/Planning in Crisis - City Debates 2022
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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16.03.2022
News
Activities with the Order of Engineers and Architects in Beirut (OEA)
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
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07.03.2022
Conference
City Debates 2022: In-Crises Planning/Planning in Crisis
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Recovery
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17.01.2022
Project
Identifying Cultural Heritage Attributes in Beirut Blast Damaged Areas - Project Summary
- Urban Recovery