REPORT: Urban planning remains ink on paper

A quick look at the streets of Beirut shows that urban planning does not exist in the capital, a planning which only exists on paper, but when it comes to implementation, urban classification and architectural basics get lost, while the city's unique monuments lose their identities.                    

In this context, the Architect Habib Debs stressed that Beirut is the only city on the Mediterranean Sea which have not yet placed an urban planning to preserve its old streets and heritage.                      

For her part, the civil designer Hana Alameddine said that the new law to preserve the heritage which brings a better and more modern classification for the architectural monuments have been waiting for more than ten years for the Parliament's vote.                   

In turn, Mona Hafez noted that the only way to reach the adoption of regulatory foundations to build cities is that public interest dominates over personal interests that benefit a small number of people.                       

Urban planning experts and architects pointed that there are other several means to merge economic profit with streets' classification, stressing that the "factor of time benefits the real estate speculators who often ignore the interests of the citizens."


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