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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Beirut"”.
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Born in Beirut
… is taken on a perilous journey through war-torn Beirut. Born in Beirut is a thoughtful and poetic examination of war through the eyes of a child who lived through endless conflict in war-torn Beirut. The film examines the futility of war and the price paid in innocent lives.
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Last Out of Beirut Turn off the Light - A Chronicle of Beirut Through its Public Spaces
I introduce Beirut as my site of research. Many scholars have designated it as a “divided” city after fifteen years of Civil War (1975-1990). I view my hometown in a different light, where the population might finally be beginning to resist the dominant hegemony. I research public space in Beirut …
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Nahr Beirut : projections on an infrastructural landscape
A century ago, Nahr Beirut was a riparian river which flowed from a mountainous valley to a coastal plain, the Beirut Peninsula, before entering the Julian Beinart Mediterranean Sea. After being for centuries the distant edge of Beirut, Nahr Title: Professor of Architecture Beirut today is the …
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The last Levantine City : Beirut, 1830-1930
My thesis examines the urban transformation of Beirut between 1830 and 1930. Evolving from a local market city importing European goods and exporting local produce into a transit city for the re-export of European commodities, Beirut developed from a quadrilateral of thick crusader walls enclosing …
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History Writing and History Making in Twentieth Century Beirut
This dissertation takes the idea of modern history as its subject of study. It investigates one thread of Arab historicism—belief in the primacy of history as the key to all human knowledge—by examining the intellectual and pedagogical endeavours of Constantine Zurayq (1909-2000) and his ilk. In …
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What kind of future for the Port of Beirut
… is to try to determine whether the port of Beirut can take advantage of his geographical position and redefine its role as either a transshipment hub or a transit gateway. It is obvious that in the present there are various new players that were able to take advantage of their location and …
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Urban dwelling environments: Beirut, Lebanon; case studies: Mkalles Housing Project.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.A.S.
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Leveraging infrastructure : sustainable bus rapid transit route planning in Beirut, Lebanon
… rapid transit (BRT) line segment into downtown Beirut, Lebanon; linking a 20- kilometer BRT corridor to the region's core. Previous routing of the segment, which used typical transportation engineering processes produced routes that would degrade the line's quality of service and/or the adjacent …
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Reviving cosmopolitan Beirut : a case study of three modernist art spaces
Prior to the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut boasted a vibrant art scene. The war took its toll on the city's infrastructure, leading to the relocation and shutdown of the existing galleries and art institutions. Since the war, art in Beirut is being revived along different tracks, in tandem with its …
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Planning for simultaneous transience and stability : neighborhood transformations in Nabaa, Beirut
… is one of the most marginalized neighborhoods of Beirut; it is abandoned by the public authorities and therefore lacks basic service provision. Due to its own history and to larger socio-political events impacting it, Nabaa has become home to a nationally, ethnically and religiously mixed …
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A review of the housing market in Beirut between 2005 and 2019
This paper examines the housing market in Beirut between the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2018, focusing in particular on the slowdown in the early to late 2010s. It will be shown that this slowdown is partly attributable to a mismatch in the supply that private developers have introduced to the …
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Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning
Set in Beirut in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the pseudo-documentary film Tango of Yearning (1998) follows the lives of several subjects who speak of love, loss, dreams, and cinema as they navigate their fragmented postwar city. Directed by underground Lebanese filmmaker …
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Analysis of selected physical issues and their impact on behavioral issues in Beirut
Typescript (photocopy).
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Displacement, politics and governance : access to low-income housing in a Beirut suburb
… of internal displacement: from South Lebanon to Beirut during the civil war, and from Beirut to the suburbs after postwar reconstruction started in 1992. This research is a case study of Sahra Choueifat, one of Beirut's southern suburbs. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the factors that …
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The space between Beirut and the moon : the spatial Lebanese coming of age novel
… a critical thesis. My novel, The Space between Beirut and the Moon, follows the story of a young boy’s coming of age within the confines of post-civil-war Beirut, around the first decade of the twenty-first century. The protagonist’s relationship with his father (a book-hoarding journalist with …
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Planning a sectarian topography : revisiting Michel Ecochard's master plans for Beirut between 1941-1964
… state frames his master plans for the capital Beirut as modernist tools for an ailing urban agglomeration, without considering the possible ramifications these plans could have had on the social and sectarian structure of the city. Throughout the scope of this thesis, I will present a …
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Islam, resistance and community development : the case of the southern suburb of Beirut City
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Alternative strategies for public transport improvement in developing countries : a case study of Beirut
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Illegitimate settlements in West Beirut : a manipulation of tenure policies and class struggle over land
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Transformative lines: a mapping approach to explore urban imaginaries and opportunities for socially sustainable change in Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon, is a city shaped by complex socio-political histories, shifting socio-economic conditions, and continuous physical and institutional transformation. Within this context, persistent disconnections often exist between formal urban development initiatives and the lived realities and …
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