BEIRUT CITY CENTER RECOVERY: The Foch-Allenby and Etoile Conservation Area
Robert Saliba, . . Steidl, $80 (283pp) ISBN 978-3-88243-978-6
In the 1980s, "downtown Beirut" became synonymous with bombed-out urban devastation, reflecting the destruction wrought by the Lebanese civil war on its capital. However, under a determined and strictly implemented restoration plan, Beirut's Foch-Allenby and Etoile areas, originally "destined to be the showcase of France in the Levant," have re-emerged as vibrant and active urban centers, with some resumption of Beirut's complicated emotional heritage as a major Mediterranean port. This impressive civic rebirth, as recorded by scholar Saliba (
Reviewed on: 05/03/2004
Genre: Nonfiction