Main entry:

Shayya, Fadi.

Title & Author:

At the edge of the city : reinhabiting public space toward the recovery of Beirut's Horsh Al-Sanawbar / edited by Fadi Shayya ; foreword by George Arbid.

Publication:

[Beirut] : Discursive Formations, ©2010.

Description:

188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.) and 1 poster

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword: Hyding the park / George Arbid -- Introduction: The discursive formation of reinhabiting and recovery / Fadi Shayya -- Part one: An intricate urban context: Beirut became her sea. So, let's plant the sea! / Bilal Khbeiz -- From woods to park: A historical & ethnographic investigation of programming the landscape of the Horsh / Fadi Shayya -- Kill him, crush him: No trespassing in the woods / Bachar Al-Amine -- Re: No choice / Fouad Asfour -- A transforming landscape / Images courtesy GIS Transport & Directorate of Geographic Affairs -- Evolution of the Horsh / Infographics by Fadi Shayya, Lina Abou Reslan, & Nancy Hamad -- Beyrouth-promenade des pins (circa 1895) / Postcard by Anonymous -- Seeing the imaginary: A story behind pine nuts / Lasse Lau -- Silent witnesses: Old pine trees of the Horsh / Photos by Danny Khoury -- Pine trees don't make pine nuts anymore / Painting by Sumayyah Samaha -- Part two: Heterotopias of park & city: On modernity, urbanity, & urban dwellers / Hussein Yaakoub -- The real versus the imagined city: A traveler's notes on imagining public space / Fadi Shayya -- Zone 9: The Horsh in the master plan of Beirut / Master Plan Courtesy the Municipality of Beirut -- Thoughts on the Horsh on a sleepless night: Dichotomies of space, values, ethics, and us / Jana Nakhal -- Stitching the scar: The Horsh as a site for "collected memories" / Rola Idris -- More green space disappears: ISF to take 9,000 square meters of Horsh Beirut: The municipality has agreed that a temporary police station can be built / Nada Bakri -- From non-sense to economic-sense / Lana Salman -- Excluding & excluded: The nature and processes of exclusion from the city / Tara Mahfoud -- Odyssey in the park: A journey of understanding women & public space / Nancy Hamad, Sara AbouGhazal, & Jana Nakhal -- Horsh mosaic / Infographics by François Eid -- What he didn't tell me or perhaps what he didn't know... / Ghassan Maasri -- Open public spaces in Beirut / Infographics by Fadi Shayya, Lina Abou Reslan, & Nancy Hamad -- Terra verte / Marwan Rechmaoui -- Part three: Transient citizenship, transient public space: -- The empty park: Deciphering ideas of public space and citizenship in Horsh Beirut / Rana Andraos -- Beyrouth -- La forêt des pins -- Les courses (circa 1920) / Postcard by Anonymous -- The Horsh in Lebanese law / Compiled by Bassam Shayya -- 2005 research interviews / Fadi Shayya -- Beirut's public space (or lack thereof) / Hanin Ghaddar -- If it exists, sensibility is not enough: Struggle for urban parks in Beirut / Salman Abbas -- Beyrouth -- Promenade des pins (circa 1935) / Postcard by Anonymous -- MP, activist see red over green spaces: AUB debate over parks generates more heat than light / Samar Kanafani -- Structural connectivity: Alternative design strategies to reconnect the park to its context / Studio ALBA -- A picnic in "Bois des Pins" / The Picnic Group -- "Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints" / Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon -- Inside out [1]: Contemporary photographic documentation of the Horsh / Photos by Fouad Asfour -- Inside out [2]: Contemporary photographic documentation of the Horsh / Photo by Fadi Shayya -- Beirut Park / Poster by Danny Khoury -- A comparative perspective of open, green spaces / Infographics by Gregoire Serof & Serge Serof -- Book covers / Artwork by Danny Khoury.

Summary:

The undertaking is a contemporary critique of urban governance and spatial production in Beirut. It is advocating in scope, multidisciplinary in approach, and journalistic in style. The book is an edited volume on public space in Beirut, focused on the case of Beirut's park Horsh Al-Sanawbar, hosting the original textual and visual works of over 25 scholars, professionals, journalists, activists, and artists. The volume includes a poster (by Danny Khoury) and a documentary DVD (by Lasse Lau). Lau's film "Pine Nuts" examines the political and social relevance of Beirut's park while dealing with its story as told by the immigrants of the Lebanese Diaspora.

ISBN:

9953015378
9789953015378
9953015376

Subject:

Public spaces Lebanon Beirut.
Parks Lebanon Beirut.
Public spaces Social aspects Lebanon Beirut.
Espaces publics Liban Beyrouth.
Espaces publics Aspect social Liban Beyrouth.
Parks.
Public spaces.
Public spaces Social aspects.
Lebanon Beirut.

Form/genre:

Optical disks.
DVDs.
Posters.

Added entries:

Arbid, George.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290949
Call No.: BIB 234205
Status: Available