A history of Beirut Beirut had a long and eventful history which makes its city plans and growth difficult to study in detail and categorize. Yet taking a set of maps from different periods shows a growth of the city that can be characterized as unplanned especially from 1980s onward during which the city’s political problems were exacerbated by a civil war that over-densified the city and caused the over-taking of the agriculture zone.
1958 Lebanon Crisis
1943 Lebanese Independence Beirut Named Capital
1920 -1939 League of Nations Mandate
1948 Palestine War
1915 -1981 Great Lebanese Famine
1900
1910
1920
Allied Administration
In the early 20th century Beirut was often referred to as ‘the Paris of the East’. Banks used high interest rates to lure in foreign investments and glamorous hotel resorts at tracted tourism srom across Europe.
1930
French Rule
1940
1950
1960
Republic of Lebanon
1943 - 1970 Independence
Lebanon: Hay al Selloum is located in Beirut the capital of Lebanon. Lebanon’s history is unique in that its independence from the French ru of nation building characterized by planning agencies and welfare state promises that most post colonial societies attempted on a itself to ultimate liberalism with total disregard to the public sector (Gaspard 2004). The historical and blind faith in the “free ma reluctance and weak interventions of the Lebanese government and the provision of services, including the provision of housing
During that 1970s, the olive groves and agriculture land of Hay al Selloum were being transformed into an area for low-inc between the airport and the industrial zone of Choueifat. A 15-minute car ride takes the residents into the central district of Bei Druze and Christian families that owned the land or inherited it. As land value in the area rose the agricultural land was transf residential areas in Beirut, with a density of 1400people\ha in 1999 (Fawaz, 2005) .
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