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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28.04.2022
Project
Actors and Governance of the Beirut Port Blast Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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DECEMBER 2021
Report
Lebanon’s Housing Ecosystem and Self-Recovery Pathways
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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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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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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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
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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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07.03.2022
Conference
City Debates 2022: In-Crises Planning/Planning in Crisis
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Urban Recovery
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DECEMBER 2021
Journal Article
Mapping Covid-19 Governance in Lebanon: Territories of Sectarianism and Solidarity
- Critical Mapping
- Planning Actors and Scales
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06.10.2021
Project
The Beirut Urban Observatory
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Spatial Practices
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17.06.2021
Research Paper
Youth in Lebanon: Policy Narratives, Attitudes, and Forms of Mobilization
- Urban Citizenship
- Planning Actors and Scales
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MAY 2021
Policy Brief
Bring the Planners Back! Displacement-Triggered Patterns of Urbanization and City Responses
- Urban Informality
- Planning Actors and Scales
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06.05.2021
Project
Critical Mapping of the Beirut Blast Damage Assessments and Repair Efforts
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
- Planning Actors and Scales
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23.04.2021
Our Reflections
Waiting for Urgency in Beirut
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales
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20.04.2021
Project
The Territories of the Covid-19 Response in Lebanon
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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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
Research Paper
Is Lebanon Becoming Another “Republic of the NGOs”?
- Urban Recovery
- Planning Actors and Scales