Comments on: Reconstructing Beirut by Demolishing its Identity https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/08/beirut-lebanon-construction-architecture/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:25:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Linda Pappagallo https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/08/beirut-lebanon-construction-architecture/#comment-46357 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:25:12 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=80940#comment-46357 Thank you so much for this! very interesting .

]]> By: Does https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/08/beirut-lebanon-construction-architecture/#comment-45680 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:03:10 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=80940#comment-45680 This could also be part of a well thought of strategy to deconstruct it’s history and identity; they call this “urbicide”, and it’s typical for a post-conflict zone where they try to replace the points where a city is most multi-layered and multi-ethnic with shopping malls. While the destruction is irreversible, they luckily always fail in the long run.

A lot of research has been done on this with Beirut, Israël, Sarajevo and Timor as the most important subjects, check Dr Nurhan Abujidi for example.

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