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Article Dans Une Revue Working Papers in Local Governance and Democracy Année : 1999

Beirut's City Center as an expression of Global, National, and local Identities and Confrontations

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The reconstruction of Beirut’s city centre after the civil war (1975–1990) has highlighted the role of multiple social, political, and economic actors, expressed at all scales, from the local urban level to the national (Lebanese), regional, and international levels (the Middle East, the global economy). At the local level, the conflict is between different economic and political élites over control of the centre of the capital; at the national level, the confrontation is expressed over the projected and promised position of the centre as the driving force required to integrate and modernize the rest of the country. At the Middle Eastern level, the debate is over the role of Beirut as a useful locus for the various national economies in the context of a regional settlement (regionalism). This, in turn is part of a larger debate over the role of the metropolis in the globalization of the world economy (multilaterism).
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hal-01223514 , version 1 (02-11-2015)

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Michael F. Davie. Beirut's City Center as an expression of Global, National, and local Identities and Confrontations. Working Papers in Local Governance and Democracy, 1999, 99 (2). ⟨hal-01223514⟩

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