For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers
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For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

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Hiba Bou Akar (Author)  

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Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seeking developers. 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. 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": urban planning plays on fears and differences, rumors of war, and paramilitary strategies to organize everyday life. As she shows, war in times of peace is not fought with tanks, artillery, and rifles, but involves a more mundane territorial contest for land and apartment sales, zoning and planning regulations, and infrastructure projects. 5 tables, 21 figues, 6 maps CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Hiba Bou Akar is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She has also worked as an architect and urban planner in Beirut.
  • Contributor: Hiba Bou Akar
  • Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781503605602
  • Number of Pages: 264
  • Packaged Dimensions: 178x254mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Release Date: 2018-09-04
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Hiba Bou Akar is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She has also worked as an architect and urban planner in Beirut.

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