2012年1月13日 · Lebanon has recently seen a luxury real estate boom and a sharp rise in land prices. Visiting journalists wax lyrical about five-star hotels and glitzy rooftop bars rising out of the ashes of war....

Should the 2006 war and subsequent reconstruction have re-stratified Lebanese society, the recent lack of direct emergencies in the slum—which usually engender a series of long-term projects and safety nets—has disenfranchised its inhabitants further, in that they were not directly stricken by the Israeli attacks and they did not benefit at ...

In this Tuesday, May 5, 2020 photo, a Lebanese woman hangs laundry on ropes outside her basement apartment at Bab al-Tebanneh, one of Tripoli Lebanon’s poorest slums. Residents of Lebanon’s poorest city, the northern city of Tripoli, despair as the country faces a terrifying confluence of events.

2020年5月11日 · Overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim and home to over 700,000 people, Tripoli has suffered years of neglect and is stigmatized with violence and extremism. Mounting poverty is turning it into a powder keg....

The State of the Lebanese Cities Report presents primary and secondary data and analysis across themes relevant to sustainable development in Lebanon as an overwhelmingly urban country.

2015年7月1日 · The present paper shows how, in particular cases like the Beirut suburb of Hay al-Gharbe—inhabited by refugees, migrant workers, and a small number of disadvantaged Lebanese—citizenship rather than refugeehood is the legal status preventing the vulnerable from accessing any assistance regime in Lebanon.

This rapid assessment explored the socio-economic situations of vulnerable Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians who have previously benefited from ACTED’s assistance and are living in dense urban slums of Beirut and Mount Lebanon. The assessment was conducted in the midst of the

Revisiting Vulnerability in a Slum of Beirut: when Citizenship Disempowers Estella Carpi Abstract Refugees in Lebanon have always occupied the lowest level of the Lebanese social pyramid, often denied access to public services, and not even being legally recognized as refugees.

2018年10月23日 · This research addresses one of the most compelling problems in Lebanon; informal settlements and the vice of sustainability and related health and wellbeing issues. The research focuses on Al-Ouzai...

2020年7月22日 · We show that it is possible to diagnose systematically the central physical problem of slums—the lack of spatial accesses and related services—using a topological analysis of neighborhood maps ...