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Public Works Studio presents the social and environmental repercussions of the city’s public management

This article is based on a research project launched by Public Works Studio in June 2022 to examine Tripoli’s urban issues and consider them in an historical and social context. The project included a series of research workshops, held in October 2021, called “A Participatory Research Space to Activate the Right to the City and Housing in Tripoli,”1 in which a selected group of the city’s residents were invited to take part. The article examines the city’s most significant problems: the planning tools, such as the land consolidation and subdivision projects; degradation of the built environment in the historic districts following their heritage classification; and the deterioration of public housing projects in Tripoli due to poor management. Read Part 1 here

General consolidation and subdivision is not the only planning tool used in Tripoli and Al-Mina with radical repercussions for their inhabitants.2 Master plans have also been employed, with immediate impacts both on residents and their living conditions and on the process of restoring and rehabilitating historic buildings in old districts. When we look at these plans, it seems obvious that they have been a devastating obstacle to urban planning attempts to improve quality of life, and have caused the death of a number of people following the collapse of buildings on their occupants.3 This has occurred in working-class districts full of old and historic buildings on the verge of crumbling and in the informal neighbourhoods, where housing is in a poor state and the quality of construction is declining.

Similar to the struggle to restore historic buildings in Tripoli and Al-Mina is that in the Taht Al-Sibat district of Tripoli. Situated between the Tripoli Citadel and the Burtasi mosque, overlooking the Abou Ali River, this area is composed of rows of residential buildings, some of which are Mamluk, others Ottoman, and still others built in the early 1970s. Today, the remaining heritage buildings are disintegrating due to negligence, even though they are still occupied; therefore, people are living in deteriorating buildings with cracked walls and ceilings and windows covered with nylon instead of glass, and some families are living in stairwells without light or ventilation. In addition, the structural problems in some buildings are making them prone to collapse.4

There are various reasons for the deterioration of buildings in this neighbourhood and other districts of the old city. The most critical, however, is that these buildings are just about frozen in their condition due to the heritage city classification. The old city is known for its organic and complex urban fabric, but its heritage classification places it under unusual regulations that block intervention, making it more difficult to restore it to meet the population’s needs, in the absence of an integrated plan for financing restoration that would be formulated by public or communal authorities or by the Antiquities Department.

The locality of Taht Al-Sibat was subjected to the conditions of the master development plan of the historic city of Tripoli, which was promulgated in 2007 by decree 1029, in the context of a national campaign for protection of heritage and archaeological zones funded by the World Bank. In the plan, the old city was considered a coherent urban heritage unit.