An Urban Plan for Sidon
“Wastani creates a disconnect in Sidon, separating it in two, and our goal was to try and suture the area and integrate it within the Saida fabric. We spent three days in Sidon in June at the invitation of the Municipality and the Hariri Foundation to present and discuss our proposal for Wastani with students and professors from other universities.”
The Municipality of Saida is currently engaged in a large-scale urban intervention that seeks to urbanize one of its last remaining green areas by a Master Plan and a Land pooling and sub-division project. The proposed project in this concept note aims at developing a mitigating solution that would save an important cultural landscape and green assets and introduce strict guidelines for its development while providing for a diversified zoning to meet the demand pattern of lower income groups, by considering a larger scheme of zoning and redistributing development rights in an equitable manner.
The sharing of the economic burden of the public good should not happen on the backs of a few landowners; therefore, the larger scheme would transfer some of that burden to other areas of the city and provide for additional development rights in less sensitive areas, thus creating a win-win situation for everyone. The project is being implemented in a participative approach among the stakeholders and best universities in Lebanon to engage the community in the project.
Read about the proposed strategy here
Link to full report here
