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The Green Line; An Investigation of Human Interactions Within Conflicted Public Spaces and Transit

Tabet, Gael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337264283

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2012, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
At the intersection of East and West lays a conflicted social disjuncture presented physically in the disparate sectors of Beirut, Lebanon, and revealed in the city’s divergent infrastructure. The crowded roadways saturated with pedestrians, taxicabs, minibuses, and other commuters literally and metaphorically block, rather than facilitate, physical and cultural advancement in the city. As an interconnected network of exchange, infrastructure can bypass cultural norms of independent neighborhoods and transgress social boundaries and memories to become an agent of trade beyond goods—a platform for circulating gathered crowds and their varying ideologies throughout the city. Ethnologist Marc Aug¿¿¿¿ analyzes this phenomenon in his book, In the Metro as he discusses the intricacies of the Paris subway system. Specifically, this network of passages allows for a rediscovery of the city as a totality within a ‘neutral’ public space, as the term is described by sociologist Samir Khalaf and planner Oussama Kabbani. As such, beyond the touristic advantages, the divided domestic population of Beirut could benefit from the quotidian encounters and renewed perceptions afforded by mass public transit on an urban scale. The connecting hubs then become the local meeting points, the moments of interaction with the unknown, the thresholds between two lives. Through such a proposal, the discourse on public transportation and the impact of infrastructure on a city hopes to move beyond pure utility, and into sociocultural reconnection empowered by architecture.
Aarati Kanekar, PhD (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, MARCH (Committee Member)
117 p.
Architecture
neutral space; transportation; divided city; Beirut; network; infrastructure;

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  • Tabet, G. (2012). The Green Line; An Investigation of Human Interactions Within Conflicted Public Spaces and Transit [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337264283

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tabet, Gael. The Green Line; An Investigation of Human Interactions Within Conflicted Public Spaces and Transit. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337264283.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tabet, Gael. "The Green Line; An Investigation of Human Interactions Within Conflicted Public Spaces and Transit." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337264283

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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