• Corpus ID: 244100440

Integrating culture, recovery and reconstruction for sustainable urban development: Beirut case study

@inproceedings{Mneimneh2021IntegratingCR,
  title={Integrating culture, recovery and reconstruction for sustainable urban development: Beirut case study},
  author={Dina Mneimneh},
  year={2021}
}

• Dina Mneimneh
• Published 2021
• History

The exceptional cultural vitality of Beirut in the 1950s and 1960s was heavily ruptured by the Lebanese civil war that ravaged the country from 1975 to 1990. Beirut’s society was dismantled and divided on confessional grounds, along with its institutions. In their paper, Howayda al-Harithy and Dina Mneimneh examine how, after the end of the civil war, reconstruction efforts failed to address social and cultural dimensions of recovery. Government initiatives, crippled by institutional fragmentation and financial challenges, reduced the reconstruction of the whole country to that of central Beirut, and subsequently entrusted it to the private development company, Solidere. The city is painted in a post-war context of recovery where remembrance and erasure continue to be juxtaposed and negotiated. *The ideas and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors; they are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization. The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. This publication is available in Open Access under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/). By using the content of this publication, the users accept to be bound by the terms of use of the UNESCO Open Access Repository (http://www.unesco.org/open access/terms-useccbysa-en). Images marked with an asterisk (*) do not fall under the CC-BY-SA licence and may not be used or reproduced without the prior permission of the copyright holders.