Tourist maps to capture place identity during disruptive events: The case of Beirut

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dc.contributor.authorSimak, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-05T14:46:52Z
dc.date.available2022-05-05T14:46:52Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractBetween October 2019 and August 2020, Beirut underwent an unprecedented sequence of events in its recent history, starting with massive anti‐government protests, followed by an economic and financial meltdown, coupled with the Covid‐19 pandemic, and ending with an explosion in the port that devastated large parts of the metropolis. As a city‐newcomer and urban design student from the Technische Universität Berlin, researching the theme of borders in fragmented cities for my master’s thesis, I was faced with a city‐in‐flux for 200 days, where mobility restrictions and safety measurements, as impacted by Covid‐19, led to the exclusion of field investigation as a primary source of information. Hedging against the limitations imposed, I developed and tested a methodology that involves analyzing tourist maps as an alternative reconnaissance tool for urban designers. On the example of the Beirut port blast area, namely Gemmayze and Mar Mikhael, this study includes the decomposition of three tourist maps of Beirut in order to extract and verify their data and, furthermore, reconstruct the identity and image of the neighborhoods through this secondary resource. The analytical framework brings together the theories of place and space that exist in the different disciplines of spatial studies: social science’s The Production of Space by Lefebvre; urban geography’s Place and Placelessness by Relph; environmental psychology’s The Psychology of Place by Canter; and urban design’s Components of the Sense of Place by Punter and Montgomery. By exemplifying what it means to be a foreigner and a researcher exploring tourist maps in Beirut during this particular time, this article aims to encourage interdisciplinary approaches in urban studies and to critically reflect on atypical and underutilized tools for studying contemporary cities under extraordinary conditions of change.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDFG, 414044773, Open Access Publizieren 2021 - 2022 / Technische Universität Berlinen
dc.identifier.eissn2183-7635
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/16800
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-15578
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subject.ddc710 Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltungde
dc.subject.otherBeirut port blasten
dc.subject.othercity‐in‐fluxen
dc.subject.othermap deconstructionen
dc.subject.otherplace identityen
dc.subject.otherspatial studiesen
dc.subject.othertourist mapsen
dc.subject.otherurban designen
dc.titleTourist maps to capture place identity during disruptive events: The case of Beiruten
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.17645/up.v7i1.4781en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue1en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleUrban planningen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameCogitatioen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLisbonen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume7en
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tub.affiliationFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umwelt::Inst. Stadt- und Regionalplanungde
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umweltde
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Stadt- und Regionalplanungde
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinen

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