Hiba Bou Akar
Biographic Data
| ID | 101204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hiba Bou Akar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hiba Bou |
| FAMILY NAME | Akar |
| SIGNATURE | AKAR H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9696-1396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Making of a Split City
This article traces the spatial history of the Ulysses S. Grant Houses and Columbia University’s planning projects in Morningside Heights, New York City. In 2020, Grant Houses recorded one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in public housing in the city. The paper focuses on two key moments: mid-century urban renewal and Columbia’s twenty-first-century Manhattanville expansion. It examines how Columbia has used planning tools, health discourses,…
Anthony Leeds Prize 2019
For the War Yet to Come
Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seekin…
Desde el sur
Contesting Beirut's Frontiers
On May 7, 2008, armed militias took to the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, in the worst sectarian fighting the city had seen since the end of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). This paper argues that critical to the understanding of the contestations of post-civil war Beirut are the ways in which the production of mundane geographies (such as housing, roads, and industrial zones) by religious-political organizations have transformed Beirut's periphe…
Practicing (In)Security in the City
Contesting Beirut's Frontiers
On May 7, 2008, armed militias took to the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, in the worst sectarian fighting the city had seen since the end of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). This paper argues that critical to the understanding of the contestations of post-civil war Beirut are the ways in which the production of mundane geographies (such as housing, roads, and industrial zones) by religious-political organizations have transformed Beirut's periphe…
Practicing (In)Security in the City
Contesting Beirut's Frontiers
On May 7, 2008, armed militias took to the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, in the worst sectarian fighting the city had seen since the end of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). This paper argues that critical to the understanding of the contestations of post-civil war Beirut are the ways in which the production of mundane geographies (such as housing, roads, and industrial zones) by religious-political organizations have transformed Beirut's periphe…
Practicing (In)Security in the City
For the War Yet to Come
Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seekin…
Desde el sur
Anthony Leeds Prize 2019
The Making of a Split City
This article traces the spatial history of the Ulysses S. Grant Houses and Columbia University’s planning projects in Morningside Heights, New York City. In 2020, Grant Houses recorded one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in public housing in the city. The paper focuses on two key moments: mid-century urban renewal and Columbia’s twenty-first-century Manhattanville expansion. It examines how Columbia has used planning tools, health discourses,…
Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (3 works) · 307.1/2160956925 (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Beirut (1 works) · City planning (1 works) · City Planning & Urban Development (1 works) · Communalism (1 works) · Communalisme (1 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (1 works)