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020			_aP3.0243.1.00
020			_a9781947447622
024	7		_a10.21983/P3.0243.1.00 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
042			_adc
072		7	_aRPC _2bicssc
100	1		_aLévesque, Carole _4auth
245	1	0	_aFinding Room in Beirut: Places of the Everyday
260			_aEarth, Milky Way _bpunctum books _c2019
300			_a1 electronic resource (142 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aFinding 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.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aUrban & municipal planning _2bicssc
653			_aurban design
653			_aBeirut
653			_aarchitecture
653			_aLebanon
653			_apolitical geography
653			_aterrain vague
653			_acultural studies
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