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Safeguarding
the Future
The Comprehensive Urban Resilience
Master Plan for Beirut, Lebanon
The comprehensive urban Khatib & Alami (K&A) For a better understanding
resilience master plan worked closely with client of the City’s shocks and
for the city of Beirut is a Buro Happold on behalf stressors, K&A is taking a
multidisciplinary project that of the World Bank and multidisciplinary approach
lays the foundations needed in collaboration with the by combining the expertise
to enhance the City’s ability Mayor and Municipality of urban planners, designers,
to cope with current and of Beirut. K&A is largely traffic and transport
future challenges. Risks focused on improving lives planners, and wet and dry
ranging from earthquakes and building the future and utilities' professionals to
and subsequent tsunami takes every opportunity to look at all the City sectors
threats to climate do so by playing a key role holistically. Sectors analyzed
change, mass migration, in this ambitious project. include mapping and
urbanization, ageing K&A is providing for the boundaries, infrastructure,
populations, epidemics, city of Beirut, whose urban education and skills, health,
poor air quality and flooding area extends over 100km2, communities and inclusion,
are considered. data collection, conducting quality of life as well as
surveys, offering technical legislations.
advice, capturing data and
developing various services.
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