The grudge : An inhabitable wall constructed to block the sea view for the plot behind I was asked in 2012 to write a forgotten sto...

Beirut 1925     The public sector in Beirut i s  weak ,  to say the least. Services and resident rights are ,  if  extant,  unpr...

Raouche Beirut Modern postcards This blog has discussed preservation in the city of Beirut in relation to a building, THE GRAND TH...

Sanayeh Beirut, Lebanon abandoned building naturally enveloped by greens! The urban environment we live in today is complex. It is hard...

  Many of us have questioned urban public space and, in the case of Beirut, the lack of it. Yet most of us have not stopped to think a...

2006 by Julie Weltzien The 2006 Israeli-Lebanon war left 265residential, commercial and office buildings severely destroyed or razed to...

  I recently drove around Haret Hreik and I would like to report that most if not all of it is rebuilt. ...

  BUILT UP FABRIC VERSUS STREET SCAPE NOTE  AMOUNT OF SPACE WASTED ON CAR INFRASTRUCTURE If you have...

Your Public right to a Public Toilet "A nation is judged by its toilets, it's one of the ...

Walking around Hamra today and seeing the new and under construction building stock I feel that we have already lost the social and economi...

In July, a show in Lebanon aired on TV, “Kalam el-Nas” on LBC that informed and documented the state ...

image by Caroline Tabet of Theater of Beirut ground, mezzanine and first floor seating from stage Our insistence to remember the value ...

in1000 years a large part of Lebanon's coast will be under water The future of Lebanon’s...

ATLANTIS source http://atlantis.haktanir.org/ch3.html The idea of inhabiting the planets oceans a...

Mapping Lebanese Rivers Water privatization touches on man...