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Author Lévesque, Carole, author.

Title Finding room in Beirut : places of the everyday / Carole Lévesque.

Publication Info. [Santa Barbara, California] ; Earth, Milky Way : punctum books, 2019.
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Description 1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Finding Room in Beirut: Places of the Everyday demonstrates why it is worth our while to explore the value and contemporary meaning of urban areas about to undergo complete renewal. Branching off from discourses surrounding the terrain vague, the book argues that large populated urban areas meet the criteria of the vague and constitute a particular perspective from which to build a critical stance in regards to the contemporary city. But unlike a terrain vague, a vague urbain -- inhabited areas where property ownership is usually obscure and informal behaviours a daily affair -- possesses real communities and offers an alternative understanding on how a city can be practiced and how lessons should be learned before its complete transformation. Stemming from a photographic and architectural documentation of Bachoura, a central area of Beirut, Lebanon, the book shows how the vague urbain allows for different ways of inhabiting, ways that are as -- or perhaps even more -- real and anchored in the imagination of the city as those proposed by standardising developments. Building on the intricacies of found situations, improvised uses and local narratives, it is an exploration as to how the meeting of a marvellous realism with l'intrigue, the vague urbain, and temporary architecture can provide opportunities for the emergence of hidden narratives.
Note Description based on electronic version of record (viewed on July 17th, 2020).
Subject Architecture -- Lebanon -- Beirut.
Urban renewal -- Lebanon -- Beirut.
Architecture -- Liban -- Beyrouth.
Rénovation urbaine -- Liban -- Beyrouth.
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
Urban renewal
Architecture
Lebanon -- Beirut https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgXfdtG9wc4KF9GVXCWjC
Indexed Term urban design
Beirut
architecture
Lebanon
political geography
terrain vague
cultural studies
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781947447615
ISBN 9781947447622 (electronic bk.)
1947447629 (electronic bk.)
1947447610 (electronic bk.)
9781947447615 (electronic bk.)
9781947447615 (print)
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