Urban intervention at Boutros Road
Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
Playing monopoly with the lights off
How does municipal planning work in Beirut? Who draws up the projects and what experts are consulted? The…
Panel to challenge Boutros Road
The Civil Coalition Against the Boutros Highway is hosting a panel and discussion this Tuesday on the battle…
Municipality without a website or public budget
Yes that’s right, Beirut a city with over a million residents and among the most influential in the…
Media, activists shut out of municipality talks once again
AUB engineering students have arranged a rare question and answer session with the mayor of Beirut over the…
Police stand down at Boutros road protest
Here’s a chronology of one of two protests in Mar Mikhael this weekend to demand a park instead…
Help save this place
The green space above is one of the only surviving orchards in Beirut, but the municipality wants to…
How much money does Beirut municipality have?
Daily Star Plenty according to Walid Jumblat, who responded to the uproar this week over the municipality’s multiple…
The “non-existent” trees of Boutros
“The flora and fauna are virtually nonexistent. There are a few trees in the area, no water tables.”…
Labaki road mansion
This is one of many 19th-20th century homes that will be torn down by the controversial Boutros road…