UN-Habitat’s Engagement of Residents, Refugees and Local Authorities in a Public Space Design Process in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon

Christine Mady

doi:10.4324/9780429489150-8

UN-Habitat’s Engagement of Residents, Refugees and Local Authorities in a Public Space Design Process in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon

Christine Mady

Not published at Aalto University

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Abstract

Human flows and the scene of people seeking refuge is no longer a characteristic of the Global South. Similarly, marginal neighbourhoods with poor urban environments, scarce public spaces and vulnerable populations characterise cities worldwide. This chapter examines the participatory public space design process initiated by UN-Habitat in one neighbourhood in Nabaa’, Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon. The process engaged the municipality, locals and refugees in building social cohesion in stages, starting with empowering and tapping on local knowledge, establishing communication and social links, and affecting a broader area through a nodal space, which intertwines parallel lives into shared everyday activities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Public Space Design and Social Cohesion
Subtitle of host publication	An International Comparison
Editors	Patricia Aelbrecht, Quentin Stevens
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	7
Pages	158-177
Number of pages	20
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-429-48915-0
ISBN (Print)	978-1-138-59402-9, 978-1-138-59403-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429489150-8
Publication status	Published - 2019
MoE publication type	A3 Book section, Chapters in research books

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UN-Habitat’s Engagement of Residents, Refugees and Local Authorities in a Public Space Design Process in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon. / Mady, Christine.
Public Space Design and Social Cohesion: An International Comparison. ed. / Patricia Aelbrecht; Quentin Stevens. 1. ed. New York: Routledge, 2019. p. 158-177.

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UN-Habitat’s Engagement of Residents, Refugees and Local Authorities in a Public Space Design Process in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon

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