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Conservation of Beirut’s Urban Heritage Values Through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach
Urban Planning, 2022 Cities are complex urban systems with dynamic transformations in their socio-economic and environmental dimensions. Several studies have shed light on the fragility of the urban heritage and the strategies of its conservation.
Ibtihal Y. El-Bastawissi +3 more
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Preliminary yield estimation of the 2020 Beirut explosion using video footage from social media
Shock Waves, 2020 Rapid, accurate assessment of the yield of a large-scale urban explosion will assist in implementing emergency response plans, will facilitate better estimates of areas at risk of high damage and casualties, and will provide policy makers and the public ...
Sam Rigby, Tommy Lodge, Andrew Barr
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Neighborhood Planning for a Divided City: The Case of Beirut
Urban Planning, 2022 This article discusses planning within Municipal Beirut, Lebanon, while focusing on the specific context of divided cities and societies, proposing a series of recommendations based on socio-economic and political science and planning theory to ...
David Aouad
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European Neighborhood Policy: Time of Turbulence [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2020 The author focuses on the tendency towards increased instability in the countries neighboring the European Union in the east and south, as well as the reaction of the EU leadership to what is happening there. Some of these countries are covered by two EU
Alexander Shumilin
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History with Geography (Gogol on the Way to the Holy Land) [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2021 The article makes an attempt to specify the actual routes of Gogol’s sea voyage in the Mediterranean Sea on his way to the Holy Land in the beginning of 1848 and to analyze the available data about his possible routes (in comparison to other Russian ...
Victor M. Guminsky
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International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, 2023 Earthquake simulations at the urban scale usually focus on estimating the damages to the built environment and the consequent losses without fully taking into account human behavior in crisis.
Rouba Iskandar +3 more
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Atmospheric dispersion modelling of gaseous emissions from Beirutinternational airport activities
AIMS Environmental Science, 2022 The projected increase of civil aviation activity, the degradation of air quality and the location of Beirut Airport embedded in a very urbanized area, in addition to the special geography and topography surrounding the airport which plays a significant ...
Tharwat Mokalled +6 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2022 Background Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental illness that develops in some people after they have experienced a stunning, scary, or dangerous incident.
Christian-Joseph El Zouki +4 more
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Beirut Ammonium Nitrate Blast: Analysis, Review, and Recommendations
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 A massive chemical detonation occurred on August 4, 2020 in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon. An uncontrolled fire in an adjacent warehouse ignited ~2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate (AN), producing one of the most devastating blasts in recent history. The blast
S. Al-Hajj +5 more
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Redesigning Informal Beirut: Shaping the Sustainable Transformation Strategies
Urban Planning, 2022 Lebanon is distinguished by its strategic geographical location among the Arab countries. Beirut, as the capital city and the major commercial and cultural centre of the country, is a point of interest for migrants.
Piotr Lorens +2 more
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