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Title

Projecting Beirut : episodes in the construction and reconstruction of a modern city / edited by Peter G. Rowe and Hashim Sarkis.

Publication

Munich ; New York : Prestel, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rowe, Peter G.
• Sarkis, Hashim.

Description

302 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Architecture > Lebanon > Beirut > History > 20th century
• City planning > Lebanon > Beirut > History > 20th century
• Urban renewal > Lebanon > Beirut
• Architecture > Liban > Beyrouth > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Architecture > Liban > Beyrouth > 20e siècle
• Rénovation urbaine > Liban > Beyrouth
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Lebanon > Beirut
• Architecture
• Architecture > Lebanon > Beirut
• Buildings
• City planning
• City planning > Lebanon
• Stadtentwicklung
• Urban renewal
• Stedenbouw
• Wederopbouw
• Beirut (Lebanon) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Beirut (Lebanon) > City planning
• Beirut
• Beirut
• Lebanon > Beirut

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The interplay of history and archaeology in Beirut / Nasser Rabbat -- Ancient Beirut: urban growth in the light of recent excavations / Helen Sader -- "Your Beirut is on my desk," Ottomanizing Beirut under Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909) / Jens Hanssen -- On Solidere's motto, "Beirut: ancient city of the future" / Fares el-Dahdah -- Modern Beirut / K. Michael Hays -- From colonial style to regional revivalism: modern architecture in Lebanon and the problem of cultural identity / Jad Tabet -- The work and influence of Michel Ecochard in Lebanon / Marlène Ghorayeb -- The role of government in shaping the built environment / Assem Salam -- Spatial aspects and socio-economic processes / Peter G. Rowe -- Contested space and the forging of new cultural identities / Samir Khalaf -- The macroeconomic basis of reconstruction / Freddie C. Baz -- Transforming the site of dereliction into the urban culture of modernity: Beirut's southern suburb and Elisar Project / Mona Harb el-Kak -- The Postwar Project / Rodophe el-Khoury -- Dances with Margaret Mead: planning Beirut since 1958 / Hashim Sarkis -- The northern sector: projects and plans at sea / Joumana Ghandour Atallah -- Heart of Beirut: making the master plan for the renewal of the central district / Angus Gavin -- Beirut and the facts of myth / Jorge Silvetti -- Public space as infrastructure: the case of the postwar reconstruction of Beirut / Oussama R. Kabbani -- Beirut sublime / Rodolphe el-Khoury -- The Souks of Beirut / Rafael Moneo -- The age of physical reconstruction / Hashim Sarkis and Peter G. Rowe -- From the geography of fear to a geography of hope / H.E. Ghassan Tuéni.

ISBN

3791319388 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98011909

OCLC

• 38326390
• ocm38326390
• SCSB-9049041

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library