New Urban Radar Podcast: Property and Urbicide

This month, Tom and Beth are joined by Hannah Sender ±¬ÁÏTV, and Mariam Bazzi Beirut Urban Lab, to discuss how propertied families in small towns in Lebanon have responded to violence and displacement over the past years.

UI Radar 23
Creait: Mariam Bazzi

When left with no savings, and little help to repair and reconstruct after military interventions, property becomes a moral relationship, as much as a personal asset: what ought housing to be used for, when urbicide becomes a core goal of warfare?

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  • Scam centres in Cambodia
  • Habermas, an unrecognised urbanist?

Guests:

Hannah Sender is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Urban Institute, ±¬ÁÏTV. Her current research examines

is a researcher at the , working on cultural heritage destruction and reconstruction in Palestine and Lebanon. Previous work included . 

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