Beirut’s Riverside Marginal Landscape: The Case Study of Mkalles Industrial Area

There is an odd case of cohabitation happening along the riverside of Beirut, a situation in which what remains of the agricultural lands now residual and unused, floats around the remains of an industrial area already in decay.

Throughout continuous and progressive urbanization along with a sense of necessity for industrialization, the riverside area of Mkalles have witnessed a complete mutation from an agricultural area to a densely urbanized industrial one.

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