Urban Transformations and Complex Values
Insights From Beirut
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018270 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabetta Pietrostefani (0000-0002-8115-1868, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v7i1.4851 |
| OpenAlex | W4206358923 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Through an urban renewal process driven by a well-resourced Lebanese diaspora and foreign investment, Beirut has undergone conspicuous morphological densification, characterised by parcel aggregation and exploitation of building height. Planning agencies have contributed to these transformations, deliberately involved in the production of illegality, and contributing to unplanned urban development. Although recent literature has substantially furthered our understanding of deregulated planning in Beirut, little is known of the preferences of residents with regards to the urban development process. This article sheds light on how morphological densification affects the complex values attached by residents to their urban environments using a novel data set and mixed-methods approach. It explores how dramatic urban restructuring affects resident values of architectural amenities and neighbourhood belonging. Findings show that although living in areas with different rates of building change does not affect preferences for architectural amenities, it affects resident socio-political activism towards the preservation of their built environment. Residents living in areas with high building-change rates had almost 50% lower odds of being willing to stop new construction near their location of residence because of their lack of confidence in the planning system. Neighbourhood belonging is not significantly affected by construction rates, but substantially increases both with the number of years lived in a neighbourhood and in locations with better building conditions, confirming a role for the built environment
Built environment · Business · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Gentrification · Geography · Logistic regression · Odds · Political science · Politics · Residence · Restructuring · Sociology · Urban planning · Urbanization · Demography · Engineering · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques
Contingent Valuation
The value of urban open space
For the War Yet to Come
Place attachment
Reducing protest responses by deliberative monetary valuation
Focus Article
The remaking of Ras Beirut
A property framework for understanding gentrification
The role of laws and regulations in shaping gentrification
The Compact City Fallacy
Enacting Neighborhood 1
Beirut and the creation of the rent gap
Ethnic Group Population Change and Neighbourhood Belonging
Exceptions and the actually existing practice of planning
Distinctively Different
Urban Informality
The sense of belonging to a neighbourhood
Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |