Beirut - a city with so many faces

Authors :: Liliane Buccianti Barakat
Source :: Dela, Iss 21, Pp 485-493 (2004), Dela-Oddelek za geografijo Filozofske fakultete v Ljubljani
Publication Year :: 2004
Publisher :: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts), 2004.
Abstract: Since the 19th century, Beirut has known a spectacular development in its physiognomy as well as its morphology and its space extent. Each era has left its mark on the city, thus con-stituting territories inside which various visual messages delimitated ideological space. Presently, 13 years after the end of the war, Beirut has become a huge agglomeration and offers several faces. What are those faces?