Dela (Dec 2004)

Beirut - a city with so many faces

  • Liliane Buccianti Barakat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4312/dela.21.485-493
Journal volume & issue
no. 21
pp. 485 – 493

Abstract

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Since the 19th century, Beirut has known a spectacular development in its physiognomy as well as its morphology and its space extent. Each era has left its mark on the city, thus con-stituting territories inside which various visual messages delimitated ideological space. Presently, 13 years after the end of the war, Beirut has become a huge agglomeration and offers several faces. What are those faces?

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