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For the War Yet to Come
Planning Beirut's Frontiers
Taschenbuch von Hiba Bou Akar
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: War in Times of Peace

Chapter 1: Constructing Sectarian Geographies

Chapter 2: The Doubleness of Ruins

Chapter 3: The Lacework of Zoning

Chapter 4: A Ballooning Frontier

Chapter 5: Planning without Development

Epilogue: Contested Futures
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503605602
ISBN-10: 1503605604
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bou Akar, Hiba
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 255 x 179 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Hiba Bou Akar
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,554 kg
Artikel-ID: 109531139
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: War in Times of Peace

Chapter 1: Constructing Sectarian Geographies

Chapter 2: The Doubleness of Ruins

Chapter 3: The Lacework of Zoning

Chapter 4: A Ballooning Frontier

Chapter 5: Planning without Development

Epilogue: Contested Futures
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503605602
ISBN-10: 1503605604
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bou Akar, Hiba
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 255 x 179 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Hiba Bou Akar
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,554 kg
Artikel-ID: 109531139
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