#Beirut Municipality Sells Beirut’s Collective Memory and the Last of its Green Spaces
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Transplanting the Beirut #Municipal_Stadium from Tarik al-Jadideh to #Horsh_Beirut (the Pine Forest) in Qasqas and transforming the #Beirut_Hippodrome (a horse-racing facility) to something like Zaitunay Bay (a posh development project) is no longer a fantasy that entertains the minds of developers but a concrete project (pun intended) ready to be implemented as soon as possible. Preliminary studies have been completed and last December the Lebanese cabinet approved a plan by the Beirut municipality to invest in public lands in al-Mazraa real estate area. What is happening now destroys all that is left of the city we inherited — its flaws notwithstanding — and destroys whatever chance we have to impose something of the “right to the city” idea in this real estate speculators paradise that is (...)
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