For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers Bou Akar HibaPaperback
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers Bou Akar HibaPaperback Beirut is a city divided. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a…
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For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers Bou Akar HibaPaperback
Beirut is a city divided. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city.
Neighborhoods reproduce poverty, displacement, and urban violence.For the War Yet to Come examines urban planning in three neighborhoods of Beirut's southeastern peripheries, revealing how these areas have been developed into frontiers of a continuing sectarian order. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seeking developers. Hiba Bou Akar argues these neighborhoods are arranged, not in the expectation of a bright future, but according to the logic of the war yet to come: