The Designed “Public Spaces”in Solidere’s Beirut City Center

In the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War, a private company Solidere took on the mission to reconstruct the center of Beirut, the capital city. An enormous real-estate privatization process transformed the once historic city center to a shiny upscale district. The paper investigates the different public spaces within it and reveals the design politics behind them.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.105.72

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-08-1