Recovering Beirut : : urban design and post-war reconstruction / / edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip S. Khoury.

• Superior document: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 47
• TeilnehmendeR: Khalaf, Samir,; Khoury, Philip S. 1949-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherland ;, New York, New York : : E. J. Brill,, [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 pages)

Recovering Beirut , the result of a workshop organised by the Center for International Studies at MIT on urban planning and socio-economic reconstruction in post-war Lebanon, brings together established professors, young scholars, architects, town planners and entrepreneurs to explore the problems of and prospects for urban planning and to consider visions and strategies for the reconstruction of Lebanon after sixteen years of civil war. This fascinating volume, which opens with an introduction by the eminent scholar Richard Sennett, engages in multi-layered discussion of the problems of spatial, socio-economic and cultural rehabilitation of a fractured social order in the throes of post-war reconstruction. It contains 82 illustrations underlining the impact of the study.