How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and
develop the Global South during the Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects …

Rachid and Khalil had met near the town of Jbeil, about one hour north of Beirut, during the
summer 1994, a time when the Lebanese rediscovered their country after almost twenty …

2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient The Routledge Handbook of Planning
History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its …

The architect and planner Michel Ecochard has had a long career in developing countries,
from its first works in Syria under the French rule, until the 1970s. He represented the …

In Visions of Beirut Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images have
shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut. Drawing on fieldwork and texts …

Previous studies conducted on Beirut have historically overlooked research in the field of
urban microclimate. A better understanding of how Beirut urban development, including …

In Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, the UHI effect was modelled using the Town Energy
Balance (TEB) model. Simulated urban canyon temperatures showed 6 o C difference …

When Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and Mufti Qabbani laid the first stone for the Muhammad al-
Amin Mosque on the first of Ramadan 1423 (6 November 2002), Hariri declared that the …

This article presents the case of the Beirut River corridor in Lebanon, which defines the
administrative border between the capital Beirut, its eastern and south-eastern suburbs. The …

Gyoji Banshoya (1930–1998) was a Japanese urban planner whose life-work was urban
planning in the Middle East and North Africa. The purpose of this paper is to provide an …