City Debates 2012. Re-Conceptualizing Boundaries: Urban Design in the Arab World
May 3 & 4, 2012
Beirut, Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), Dar Al-Handasah Architecture Building
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.
Organization
The American University of Beirut's Graduate Programs in Urban Planning and Policy & Urban Design (MUPP-MUD)
Department of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
With the support of:
the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo),
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 German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
