The Urban Observatory of Beirut: for a polysemic reading of both city and territory
The urban observatory has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary English version by W. Parramore (Original: L’Observatoire urbain à Beyrouth : pour une lecture polysémique de la ville et du territoire). After four years in Damascus, the Ifpo urban observatory has returned to Beirut since October 2011, where it was created exactly twenty years ago, in 1991. Beyond the purely factual description heading its institutional page, the...