Daliyeh as a case study to rebuild Beirut
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/daliyeh-case-study-rebuild-beirut
Not much is free nowadays. There are no public beaches in Beirut, a city entirely on the sea. People can now only swim for free in the last remaining supposedly public beach in Ramlet al-Bayda, south of Beirut. Besides the fact that it’s where all the city’s sewage is directed, either by infrastructure or natural water current, it’s actually not public land. It’s just pending until, like Daliyeh, its time comes.
Morbid inevitabilities aside, there’s something wonderful about how people use Daliyeh unbound by civilized “urban manuals.” It’s a place where people grow and interact with each other and the space as organically as the space itself. It’s something we should learn from, not demolish.
