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Beirut's Municipality Deals Another Blow to the City's
Green Space

At a meeting the Lebanese Cabinet adopted a decree aimed at restoring
illegal buildings to proper condition on a plot of land on the outskirts of
Beirut's largest forest park, Horsh Beirut. The reason for this was the
decision of the Beirut Municipal Council to change the zoning of the site,
which would allow the construction of buildings. In an interview with the
French-language daily L'Orient Le Jour, Jamal Itani, the current mayor of
Beirut, said that the decree concerned an area that was not part of the park
itself. To Muhammad Abu, president of Nahnoo, a Lebanese
non-governmental organization that advocates for public spaces, these arguments
do not seem at all convincing.

This is not the first time that Horsh Beirut has been threatened by
development. A recent decision by the municipality to build a field hospital
inside the Horshah of Beirut caused a wave of outrage among civil society
representatives. Yielding to the demonstrations, the Beirut Municipality froze
construction. However, under political pressure, he returned to his original
position after only a week, voting nine votes against and thirteen votes in
favor, thus giving permission to continue the planned construction.

The Lebanese capital
is not the only city suffering from high temperatures in the summer and a lack
of green areas. And Barcelona, Spain's second most populous city, is in dire
need of green spaces to counteract the heat island effect, cope with air pollution
and noise levels, and generally improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.
That's why the city has drawn up a plan for a greening program with the goal of
doubling the number of trees in the city, increasing the area of parks by
two-thirds, and providing each resident with an additional square meter of
green space. The city plan, which will see 108 acres of new green space by 2019
and more than 400 acres by 2030 — is an original model that could benefit other
cities as well. In particular, the municipality of Barcelona plans to create ‘green
corridors’ to connect the existing parks of the city, the introduction of green
spaces in the courtyards of the largest buildings and the introduction of ‘green
roofs’