Recovering Beirut

Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction (Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol 47)

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Written in English

Published: July 1993 Pages: 297 Downloads: 135

Subjects:

City & town planning - architectural aspects,
Social Science,
General,
Urban Planning,
Sociology,
Architecture,
Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,
Politics/International Relations,
Interior Design - General,
Beirut,
Beirut (Lebanon),
City planning,
Lebanon,
Social conditions,
Economic conditions

Edition Notes

The Physical Object
Contributions	Philip S. Khoury (Editor), Samir Khalaf (Editor)
Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	297
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL9076420M
ISBN 10	9004099115
ISBN 10	9789004099111

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Philip S. Khoury is Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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