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Lebanon Cities’ Public Spaces

In Lebanon, the social connections are undeniable and crucial. However, meeting places remain private such as houses, restaurants, malls, and beach resorts. This is mainly due to the shortage of public spaces in Lebanon resulting from lack of planning, regulations and awareness around the right to the city and the importance of public spaces. In…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

Growing Up in an Urbanising World summarizes the results of an eight-nation UNESCO project that explores these questions and others across a spectrum of low-income neighbourhoods in the industrialized and developing worlds. Building on the pioneering ideas of the Growing Up in Cities project of the 1970s (a four-country effort directed by the influential urban…
  • Publication year: 2001
  • Content Type: Book

The Future of Cities: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward

This report identifies challenges influencing the future of cities in Europe and beyond. It also presents several perspectives from which to look at resolving these issues. The main aim is to raise open questions and steer discussions on what the future of cities can, and should be, both within the scientific and policymaker communities.  It…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

The State of the World’s Children 2012

The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World examines the situation of children growing up in urban settings and finds that denials of children’s rights to survival, health, nutrition, education and protection are widespread. It sheds light on the scale of these urban inequities and suggests ways to ensure that urban…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Report

Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Voices from Beirut

The report focuses on the voices of adolescent girls (10-19) living in Beirut and its suburbs (Burj Hammoud, Burj al Barajne, Shatila) in order to understand how girls navigate public spaces in these areas and the barriers that stand in their way or the mechanisms that are in place to support them, and to find…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

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