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For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers Hiba Bou Akar, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018, 243 pp.

For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers Hiba Bou Akar, Stanford: Stanford University... Book Review For the War Yet to Come: Planning Bou Akar draws on extensive Beirut’s Frontiers fieldwork conducted in three Hiba Bou Akar, Stanford: Stanford neighborhoods between 2004 and 2010 University Press, 2018, 243 pp. to develop this argument. Reflecting her background as a professionally trained Claire Panetta architect and long-time resident of Doha Pace University-New York City Aramoun, her research methodology entailed what she describes as “patching In her compelling and persuasively stories and maps” (13). This approach argued monograph, For the War Yet to enabled her to juggle a remarkable array Come, Hiba Bou Akar examines the of material to demonstrate how the shifting landscape of urban planning and Shiite-dominated Hezbollah, the Sunni- development in Beirut’s southern led Future Movement, the Druze- “suburbs,” an area known as al-Dahiya. controlled Progressive Socialist Party, The territory underwent rapid expansion and the Christian Maronite Church have during and after the country’s civil war harnessed urban development activities (1975-1990). It is now considered an to reconfigure al-Dahiya along sectarian urban periphery that suffers from lines. underdevelopment and informality. Bou The text consists of five chapters, Akar, however, critiques this narrative by bookended by a prologue and epilogue. instead showing how the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers Hiba Bou Akar, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018, 243 pp.

City & Society , Volume 33 (1) – Apr 1, 2021

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Wiley
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0893-0465
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1548-744X
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10.1111/ciso.12371
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Book Review For the War Yet to Come: Planning Bou Akar draws on extensive Beirut’s Frontiers fieldwork conducted in three Hiba Bou Akar, Stanford: Stanford neighborhoods between 2004 and 2010 University Press, 2018, 243 pp. to develop this argument. Reflecting her background as a professionally trained Claire Panetta architect and long-time resident of Doha Pace University-New York City Aramoun, her research methodology entailed what she describes as “patching In her compelling and persuasively stories and maps” (13). This approach argued monograph, For the War Yet to enabled her to juggle a remarkable array Come, Hiba Bou Akar examines the of material to demonstrate how the shifting landscape of urban planning and Shiite-dominated Hezbollah, the Sunni- development in Beirut’s southern led Future Movement, the Druze- “suburbs,” an area known as al-Dahiya. controlled Progressive Socialist Party, The territory underwent rapid expansion and the Christian Maronite Church have during and after the country’s civil war harnessed urban development activities (1975-1990). It is now considered an to reconfigure al-Dahiya along sectarian urban periphery that suffers from lines. underdevelopment and informality. Bou The text consists of five chapters, Akar, however, critiques this narrative by bookended by a prologue and epilogue. instead showing how the

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Published: Apr 1, 2021

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