SHIFTING GROUNDS

This book examines specifically four spatial practices Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism -? in?how they inform and transform the diverse urban morphologies of the city from built matter to cultural organization. Through expansive visual?and written narrations, the book constructs a graphical analysis of each practice, its materialization on the ground, its shaping of?experience, and its impact on Beiruts urban transformation?through the shifts that the city continues to endure.