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تحديث لخريطة مراكز الإيواء في المدارس والمعاهد الرسمية في لبنان وفق لائحة المراكز الصادرة عن اللجنة الوزارية لإدارة الكوارث المحدثة بتاريخ ٢٥ أيلول ٢.٢٤. سنستمر بتحديث الخريطة بانتظام مع تغير المعلومات في الأيام القادمة.
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Our Sheltering
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Timeline and Map of Escalation along Lebanon’s souther Border (Oct. 7 - Nov. 9)
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Tracking the Urbicide unfolding in Gaza since Oct 7th. Digitally constructing Gaza serves as an act of archiving, countering erasure, reclaiming its existence, and providing a reset point for where the conversation can begin.
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Even after a 200% increase in strikes by Lebanese factions during the exceptionally violent month of July in retaliation to the assassinations by Israel, strikes on Lebanon remain disproportionately higher. Meanwhile, August marks a relative return to previous rates of attacks.
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On Tuesday we released our first weekly timeline of escalation on the Lebanese southern border. To read details on the almost 700 events so far and filter through the data, visit our interactive dashboard at:
Timeline and Map of Escalation along Lebanon’s souther Border (Oct. 7 - Nov. 9)
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#30daysmapchallenge
day 23- Boundaries
An eternal question for us: on what basis should we draw boundaries between neighborhoods?
Compare neat administrative boundaries in
#Beirut
as defined by Electricité du Liban with food delivery drivers' accounts of lived neighborhoods
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Join the 20th edition of the City Debates Conference, Disrupted Urbanisms, on March 6–8, 2024 at ALH
@AUB_Lebanon
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Our up-to-date, georeferenced basemap of
#municipal_Beirut
is available for all to download. We hope this will support and facilitate coordination efforts in the relief and recovery work after the
#BeirutBlast
. Visit our website for more details:
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Rafah’s productive landscapes, essential for sustaining livelihoods, have been targeted even before the Rafah military campaign started. Between January 30 and April 24, damage to agricultural fields surged from 12% to 38%, while damage to greenhouses increased from 24% to 73%.
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As part of tracking the urbicide in Gaza, BUL is launching ‘People and Places’ map documenting some of the disruptions of socio spatial practices, waves of forced displacement as well as acts of everyday resistance by Gazans.
For More ➡️
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City Debates 2023 is coming soon!
Mark your calendars
🗓️March 15, 16 & 17
#CD2023
will explore the possibilities for advocates of just and green cities to introduce, develop, and adapt Land Value Capture (LVC) tools in ways that render cities more viable, just, and inclusive.
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BUL launches this week construction works
#Mar_Mikhael
Piazza Design & Rehabilitation, a project co-designed with💔Habib Debs & Francis Landscapes. The design is part of a larger vision to invigorate public spaces and urban walkability in
#Beirut
.
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The scale of damage and impact of bombardment on the built environment of Gaza through our new 3D visualization➡️
More on Tracking the Urbicide in Gaza ➡️
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We’re happy to announce that we’re co-organizing "Panel 9: South-South collaborations and dialogues: variegated epistemologies, knowledges, and experiences for postcolonial urban studies" as part of the
@ISA_RC21
conference held in Santiago, Chile on July 24-26, 2024.
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WATCH: 30 weeks of Israeli bombardment have shown consistently disproportionate Israeli aggression affecting a far greater territory than strikes by Lebanese factions. Since 10/7 Lebanon has been struck five times as often as Israel, reaching towns up to 90km north of the border.
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New Platform OUT! 📢
We're so excited to launch Precarious Lives, a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in Beirut, while introducing layers of citywide conditions that contribute to
#urban_precarity
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The Beirut Urban Lab proudly announces the launch of the Urban Observatory website, a modest contribution that aspires to enhance the coordination of the post-blast recovery process and its visibility. Visit the observatory's website here:
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We are happy to announce the launch of our Webinar series “Housing & Financialization in a Moment of Crisis” with its first session on July 8 at 6pm (GMT +3).
@RaquelRolnik
will be the keynote speaker with comments by
@MonaFawaz
and Cesare Di Feliciantonio. Register now!
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This morning, Beirut Urban Lab coordinated with partners a general meeting with resident representatives and all NGOs/INGOs involved in Karantina to improve relief, repair, and recovery efforts. Ongoing initiatives in shelter, health, food, law, and more towards urban recovery.
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Our latest data records the greatest number of strikes from Lebanon on a single day with the deepest average distance into Occupied Palestine. The escalation on July 6 came in response to the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander by Israel three days earlier.
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ليش توقف مشروع ساحة مار مخايل؟🧵
في مثل هذا اليوم كان من المفترض أن ننهي أعمال مشروع ساحة مار مخايل في منطقة الجميزة/الأشرفية لولا العراقيل التي واجهناها في الأسابيع الماضية والتي انتهت الأسبوع الماضي بشكل عنيف ومؤسف. في هذا الفيديو سنوضح أمام الرأي العام بعض الحقائق المغيّبة عنه
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We return after the year-end pause with data covering the past 4 weeks.
A major escalation was recorded on Jan. 2 in Beirut's southern suburb where a Hamas senior leader was assassinated by guided Israeli missiles.
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🧵 The Beirut Urban Lab is happy to announce the launch of a new collaborative project with King’s College London that explores state-making and governance through an urban lens.
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With damages to the homes they rent and an increase of military presence in the area, Syrians living in
#Jeitaoui
are facing high risk of displacement from the neighborhood after the
#BeirutBlast
Read more about how and why some of them chose to live there
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بيان: صباح اليوم، تعرّض العمّال والمهندسون الموكلون من قبل مختبر المدن في بيروت إلى تهديد وترهيب من قبل من يدّعون تمثيل سكّان مناطق الجمّيزة ومار مخايل وأرغموهم تحت وابل التهديد والشتم والصراخ على التوقّف عن استكمال الأعمال الضروريّة لتأمين سلامة مرور السيارات والمشاة. 1/4
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The Beirut Urban Lab is incredibly proud to be a winner of the 2023 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship (second place) awarded by the
@TalloiresNet
and the MacJannet Foundation in recognition of exceptional student community engagement initiatives. Congrats BUL!👏👏👏
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Israeli strikes continued their trend northward this past week, with 5 strikes falling north of the Litani river.
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The past year may have been exceptionally rough, but this March is loaded with academic events the Lab is excited about! Here are a few we’re participating in:
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The Beirut Urban Lab is making waves! Prof. Simon Sadler (UC Davis) reviewed our website in the prestigious Design and Culture, qualifying our work as “more relevant than any amount of the leisurely urbanism that hails from cities north of the Political Equator” 🧵1/7
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BUL proudly launches "Oral Narratives by the Residents Karantina", a new platform focusing on “recovery as unarchiving” in the neighborhood of Karantina, part of “Imagining Futures Through Un/Archived Pasts” project
@USMEPI
@ImaginesFutures
Visit here:
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By early May, the Israeli military operations left the city of Khan Yunis devastated, with 45.8% of its buildings & 80% of its institutions completely or partially destroyed.
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Israeli attacks increased ahead of the pause in combat in Gaza: See our updated timeline and escalation map along Lebanon’s southern border (Oct. 7 - Nov. 24)
More ➡️
Escalation Update - (Oct. 7 - Nov. 17):
Over the past 5 weeks of conflict along Lebanon’s southern border, Israeli Armed Forces have been striking more and more often - at a rate of one additional strike every two days. More ➡️
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*We're hiring!*
We are looking for a project coordinator for our Observatory of the Post-Blast Recovery in
#Beirut
.
See full description below, and share with potential candidates.
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Over the month of Jan. Israeli forces struck Lebanon more than 20 strikes/day on average, Hezbollah successfully targeted a number of Israeli military sites, and conflict spread to multiple regional fronts.
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As the conflict on the southern border reaches day 100, the Israelis have attacked Lebanon 2,036 times while Lebanese factions have struck occupied Palestine 508 times so far. The rate of Israeli strikes has declined by about 3 strikes per week since early Dec.
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This video highlights the systematic erasure of green and open spaces in Gaza, illustrating the serious threat Gazans are facing upon the destruction of the productive landscapes essential for their survival.
You can access the platform here:
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Finally, City Debates 2022 program is out! “In-Crises Planning/Planning in Crisis” will feature Beirut Urban Lab’s framework & methods amidst crises & dysfunctional governance. Mark your calendars for 18-19 March: in-person at AUB & live-streamed. Details:
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As of February 2024, the cumulative damage inflicted upon buildings and green/open spaces in Gaza surpassed the combined toll of all previous Israeli military operations from 2008 to 2021.
More on Tracking the Urbicide in Gaza ➡️
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The latest period witnessed the highest death rate in Lebanon since the beginning of the attacks on the southern border with 30 casualties recorded in the week of Feb. 12-18 alone.
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Proudly sharing the Beirut Recovery Map, a collaborative work between BUL’s GIS team,
@MSFEA_AUB
,
@RiceUniversity
’s Spatial Studies Lab, New Levant Initiative &
@OpenMapLebanon
. It portrays the extent of damage & ongoing repair works post Beirut Blast.
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The Beirut Urban Lab is featured by Al-Jazeera as one of five grassroots movements selected for their approach to equity and sustainability. Read more about BUL's ongoing projects advocating for urban and housing justice in Beirut.
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We're online! Visit our website to see our current projects, publications, and meet our wonderful team of researchers and designers.
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#CD2023
Taming the Growth Machine: The Promises and Pitfalls of Land Value Capture program is now out!
Learn more about our panels here:
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Since the January siege of Khan Yunis, building damage in the governorate surged from 18.2% to 31.9% by February 29. Health facilities bore a heavy toll, soaring from 30% to 65% damage, and educational institutions endured an increased damage from 33% to 54%.
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A new analysis of over 7,000 incidents in the West Bank reveals the dire need for greater scrutiny of settler-colonial violence across all of Palestine.
Read the report on the following Link:
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Strikes along the southern border over the past four weeks appear to reflect rising tensions: despite being 1/5 as frequent as Israeli attacks, strikes by Hezbollah appear to penetrate further and further into occupied Palestine. More ➡️
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Vital infrastructural facilities were targeted by the deliberate destruction in Gaza to inflict lasting damage. By February 29, 74 infrastructural facilities, including electricity, water, and energy facilities, were damaged or completely destroyed.
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Escalation Update - (Oct. 7 - Nov. 17):
Over the past 5 weeks of conflict along Lebanon’s southern border, Israeli Armed Forces have been striking more and more often - at a rate of one additional strike every two days. More ➡️
Timeline and Map of Escalation along Lebanon’s souther Border (Oct. 7 - Nov. 9)
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#30daysmapchallenge
day 28 - non-geographic map
Here's a map (from 2018) linking owners of
#Beirut
seafront: companies that own lots on the seafront, companies that own these companies, and their shareholders.
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Israeli armed forces struck Lebanon at least six times during the November 24-December 1 pause in fighting. More ➡️
Israeli attacks increased ahead of the pause in combat in Gaza: See our updated timeline and escalation map along Lebanon’s southern border (Oct. 7 - Nov. 24)
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يبدأ مختبر المدن هذا الأسبوع العمل على مشروع تصميم وإعادة تأهيل ساحة #مار_مخايل الذي شاركنا تصميمه💔 حبيب دبس وفرانسيس لاندسكيبز. هذا التصميم هو جزء من رؤية أكبر لإنعاش المساحات العامة وتحسين إمكانية المشي في المدينة.
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#30daysmapchallenge
, "island(s)": Militarized security mechanisms generate "islands" of security in Beirut, particularly the
#Solidere
area where the two maps in 2009 and 2019 reflect a widening divide. Credit for 2019 version below to
@TAbiSamra
, prior to the October uprising.
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The BUL team, led by Prof. Howayda Al-Harithy, has completed the
@UNESCOBEIRUT
commissioned study aimed at mapping urban heritage attributes and identifying key attributes of modern heritage in the most affected blast areas. Read the project summary here:
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What’s going on in Mar Mikhael?
In March 2023, works started at the intersection of Gemmayze and Mar Mikhael to implement a public space design intervention.
In this video, we discuss the project with residents and experts.
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Join us throughout June 2023 for a series of online presentations and discussions on
Housing Uncertainties, Financial Crisis, and Social Protections
🗓️Tuesdays 6, 13, 20 & 27 June 2023; at 5:00 pm Beirut Time (GMT +3)
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Save the Date🗓️
After the unforeseen postponement, the
@BeirutUrbanLab
,
@MSFEA_AUB
and
@IJURResearch
are happy to announce the new dates of the 20th edition of City Debates.
--
Look out for the event program and other details soon!
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#30daysmapchallenge
day 21- water
How frequently do you get tap water when you live in
#Beirut
?
From a sample of 1167 buildings, we projected a honeycomb grid using an optimised hot spot analysis tool to map statistically significant high and low water supply locations
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New Podcast Out!🎙️Explore Beirut's alternative histories and the vision for people-centered cities with
@mona_fawaz
, co-founder of
@BeirutUrbanLab
, hosted by
@afikra
. Join the conversation on urban planning, brighter city futures, and more on ⬇️
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The Beirut Urban Lab in partnership with
@ifi_aub
, and the Arab Center for Architecture invite you to:
The Beirut Port Discussion Series
Location: Basile Antoine Meguerdiche Conference Hall (IFI Auditorium – Level B), AUB
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In Solidarity with the People of Palestine
تضامنًا مع أهل فلسطين
(1/3)
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As the conflict on the southern border reaches day 100, the Israelis have attacked Lebanon 2,036 times while Lebanese factions have struck occupied Palestine 508 times so far. The rate of Israeli strikes has declined by about 3 strikes per week since early Dec.
We return after the year-end pause with data covering the past 4 weeks.
A major escalation was recorded on Jan. 2 in Beirut's southern suburb where a Hamas senior leader was assassinated by guided Israeli missiles.
More ➡️
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Violence in the West Bank is often described in media as occurring between equal parties, endemic, and permanent. But what does the data say?
Introducing a new analysis of over 7000 events from stone throwing to drone strikes across 2023:
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Psyched to launch our first user-fed database and visualization platform, City of Tenants. The platform hosts a map documenting actual rental conditions and prices recorded *by* tenants living in the city *for* tenants seeking adequate rent within Municipal Beirut. 1/4
@MSFEA_AUB
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Join the Beirut Urban Lab in the two-panel webinar titled "Recovering Amidst Crises, Beirut's Port Blast One Year Later" co-organized with
@ifi_aub
on Thursday, August 12, 2021, from 3:00-6:00 pm (Beirut time)
Register here:
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Join us Wednesday for the second round of Housing and Financialization Webinar Series "Housing and Financialization in a Moment of Crisis: Large Scale Urban Projects" Register here!
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OUT NOW: The recordings of the 19th edition of the City Debates conference! The 3-day conference was organized last March by the Beirut Urban Lab, the MUPP/MUD programs
@MSFEA_AUB
, in collaboration with
@landpolicy
.
Recordings here:
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Join us Thursday for the third session of Housing and Financialization Webinar Series "Illegal by Degree: Legal Exclusion and Crisis in Mumbai’s Slum Settlements" Register here!
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A year after the August 4th Blast, Beirut Urban Lab launched the Beirut Urban Observatory, a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.
Read more about our timely initiative here:
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"A champion of cultural heritage protection, a gifted public space designer, and a leading figure in city planning, he will be remembered for his incredible talent, innumerable contributions, deep humanism"
BUL's tribute to the late Habib Debs, here:
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Save the Date🗓️ The
@BeirutUrbanLab
,
@MSFEA_AUB
and
@IJURResearch
are proud to announce the 20th edition of City Debates.
Look for the event program and other details next week!
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Israeli forces bombarded Lebanon 46 times on dec 4 - the highest single-day number of strikes since October 7. See our updated timeline and escalation map along Lebanon’s southern border (Oct. 7 - Dec. 7)
More ➡
Israeli armed forces struck Lebanon at least six times during the November 24-December 1 pause in fighting. More ➡️
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Now you can read all our publications, explore our past and more recent projects and have a look at our media round up in Arabic!
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We've been working hard since the
#BeirutBlast
towards a people-centered recovery, focusing on three main tracks: building an Reconstruction Observatory, leading on neighborhood-scale recovery interventions, and engaging colleagues in visioning exercises:
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The Lab is developing a long-term urban recovery strategic framework for Karantina that is people-centered, participatory, socially just, and heritage-led. Part of the work conducted by BUL in Karantina is focused on shared community spaces as a catalyst for recovery.
Prof. Howayda Al-Harithy presenting the design and vision of the public space intervention to Karantina's residents who were our co-designers
@MSFEA_AUB
@AUB_Lebanon
@ACTEDLebanon
@ucl
@Ali_Ghaddar_
@BatoulYassine1
@BeirutUrbanLab
@Zaatari_Abir
@AntoineKallab1
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A 3D visualization reveals a dramatic surge in the severity of damage in Khan Yunis from January 7 to February 29.
Tracking the Urbicide in Gaza ➡️
Link to the full 3D model ➡️
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In this essay published in
@APSAMENA
, Ahmad Gharbieh reflects on the role practice plays in the delineation of neighborhoods and definition of urban boundaries by examining the representation of socio-spatialities across digital visualization tools.
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Join us on Thursday June 24, 5:00 pm (Beirut time, GMT +3) for our first Book Talk featuring Mohamad Hafeda's "Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut", moderated by
@mona_fawaz
Meeting link here 👇
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Join us Wednesday for the fifth session of Housing and Financialization Webinar Series in partnership with
@CEDEJ_Egypte
"Housing and Financialization in a Moment of Crisis: Case Studies from the Arab Middle East" Register here!
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"Beyond humanitarian aid and relief, a community-based recovery that is inclusive, participatory and environmentally-conscious needs to be envisioned and put on track"
Read our reflections on the
#BeirutBlast
and the upcoming recovery efforts.
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@mona_fawaz
: "The emergency is for restoring any element of normalcy in the districts and empowering neighborhood dwellers’ return. This will be imperative for the city to reignite life and avoid seeing its quarters hijacked by real estate interests."
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The City Debates 20th edition videos are finally out!
WATCH the recordings of of the “Disrupted Urbanisms” conference held last March in collaboration with the MUPP/MUD programs
@MSFEA_AUB
and
@IJURResearch
Videos ➡️
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Three years after the
#beirutblast
, almost half of blast zone apartments remain vacant according to a cluster-based survey by the Beirut Urban Lab.
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The Beirut Urban Lab and the MUPP/MUD Programs at AUB are hosting a public lecture titled "Detroit: Disaggregated Urbanism at a Time of Crisis"
📆Thursday, November 10, 6:00pm
📍 Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
More details on the lecture & speakers👇
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** Call for Papers/Workshop **
@sur_project
with support from
@CarnegieCorp
@APSAtweets
in collaboration w/
@medit_enstitusu
@BeirutUrbanLab
are holding a 3-day workshop titled: The Urban and Local Dimensions of Political Violence in Syria and the Middle East
🗓️Oct 27 – 29, 2023
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Over the last two weeks, Hezboallah struck its new farthest strike from the southern border (49 kms) during a drone countering operation, with Israel following suit by targeting the City of Baalbak (88kms)
More ➡️
The latest period witnessed the highest death rate in Lebanon since the beginning of the attacks on the southern border with 30 casualties recorded in the week of Feb. 12-18 alone.
More ➡️
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BUL Talks are back! Join us for a Talk with Professor Saree Makdisi (UCLA), titled
Denial at the Limit of the Human
Tuesday May 7, 2024 at 6:00PM
Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), AUB
All are welcome!
More ➡️
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Happening now: researchers of the Lab starting their talk on the financialization of housing in
#Beirut
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We're late to the
#30daysmapchallenge
party so here is at the same time a blue, a monochrome, and a map not made with GIS. More than 1950 landmarks mentioned by delivery drivers in
#Beirut
mapped by
@monica_bsb
(manually with incredible patience!) and Ahmad Gharbieh.
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In defiance of 1701 SC Resolution, a staggering 783 strikes on Lebanon have fallen north of the Litani river - 18% of all attacks. Israeli forces continued to push northward over the past two weeks, with 22% of strikes surpassing the river.
More ➡️
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Tom Goodfellow
@GoodfellowTom
(University of Sheffield) opens Panel 3: Land Value Capture & Development, Developers with a presentation entitled “Land Value Challenges in Urban Africa: Creation, Distortion, and Capture”
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We have been working on questions of security and militarization of urban spaces in
#Beirut
for more than a decade, in relation to public spaces, residents' positionalities, forced displacement, and protests. Read more on our website:
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In Solidarity with the People of Palestine
-
تضامنًا مع أهل فلسطين
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DAY 1 of City Debates 20th Edition begins tomorrow evening 5:30pm.
All are welcome!
More about the event:
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The Beirut Urban Lab &
@TPI_lebanon
cordially invite you to a public seminar:
Disaster Governance: The Recovery of Beirut After the Port Blast
📆Wednesday Feb. 8, 2023, 3:30-7:00pm
📍Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Join us!
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*We're hiring!*
We are looking for a full-time researcher for a period of four months to support an ongoing mapping initiative of residential tenancy conditions in Beirut.
See full description below, and share with potential candidates:
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Despite Iran's retaliatory attack against Israel on the 14th, the fighting along the southern border remained largely consistent with previous weeks— with a third of Israeli strikes falling north of the Litani river.
More ➡️
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Join us Wednesday for the second session of Housing and Financialization Webinar Series with Beirut, A City for Sale? [A discussion of Beirut’s past and ongoing transformations.] Register below.
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The
#BeirutUrbanLab
stands in
#solidarity
with Palestinians resisting
#dispossession
and
#EthnicCleansing
by
#ApartheidIsrael
and
#SettlerColonialism
#Urbicide
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