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City Debates 2012, Re-Conceptualizing Boundaries: Urban Design in the Arab World

Date: May 3, 2012 At 09:30
 
City: Beirut
 
Address: Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), Dar Al-Handasah Architecture Building, AUB
 

The American University of Beirut’s Graduate Programs in Urban Planning and Policy & Urban Design (MUPP-MUD) and the Department of Architecture and Design of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture with the support of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at AUB, the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at AUB, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research at AUB, the British Council, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) & the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) present “City Debates 2012, Re-Conceptualizing Boundaries: Urban Design in the Arab World“ on May 3 & 4, 2012 at the Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), Dar Al-Handasah Architecture Building, AUB, Beirut.

Synopsis
This year’s edition of City Debates aims at exploring the significance of urban design theory to the Arab World by investigating relevant emerging practices and pedagogies. It does so through questioning: what the changing ‘global’ paradigms of urban design at the wake of the new millennium are and how these advancements can impact the shaping of cities in the Arab World.

 

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URL webfea.fea.aub.edu.lb/fea/
 

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