Tooran Alizadeh | توران علیزاده
@DrTooran
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Prof. Urbanism & Infrastructure| ARC Future Fellow| Intersectional Feminist
Unceded Gadigal land (Sydney)
Joined April 2016
In the early hours of 2025, my thought are of course with the people of Gaza and the ongoing ecocide, urbicide, and genocide. Nothing has been, is, or will be the same after Gaza.
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44 thousand homes are empty in Beirut but none to spare for the displaced? The Beirut Urban Lab argues for a public authority to recover abandoned buildings as temporary housing for displaced families. Read more https://t.co/pdCtRTjucZ
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Howayda Al-Harithy: "Every destroyed mosque, church, or communal space is more than just a building. These sites are repositories of shared memories, rituals, & collective histories. ... Their loss cuts deep into what it means to belong."
Not Collateral Damage but a Deliberate Act of Cultural Erasure The systematic targeting of cultural heritage sites in Lebanon is an integral part of Israel’s military strategy... Read Howayda Al-Harithy’s essay here. https://t.co/bm0o4YoLd9
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Visualizing Violence: The Beirut Urban Lab maps the scale and impact of the ongoing Israeli assault on Lebanon
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As Israel’s assault on Lebanon intensifies, the Beirut Urban Lab at MSFEA has launched projects mapping the attack's scale and impact. These maps track military activity, document human cost, and...
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Urbicide 101: Destroy social and cultural landmarks that hold the collective memories of communities together to kill the chances of recovery. (Below: South Lebanon) #CeasefireNow! #Gaza #Lebanon
#Lebanon: The old souks of #Nabatiyeh that date back to the Mamlouk and Ottoman era destroyed by Israeli strikes
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The Beirut Urban Lab launches the English version of its platform "Government-Designated Shelters in Lebanon" updated on the 1st of October. You can access the platform https://t.co/7bOk31V0Ys Government-Designated Shelters in Lebanon https://t.co/iCnRrNnEeV
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Lebanon’s Southern border: A year in perspective-
This map-chart locates the escalating violence across the southern border and recently the entire Lebanese territory when Israel abruptly expanded its war agenda. In the face of this campaign of violence, the Beirut Urban Lab remains dedicated to countering the oppressor’s
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#Lebanon Since Sept. 20, 3,100 buildings in the country have been damaged or destroyed, At least 1,336 people killed More than 1mn displaced #Cease_fire Now! #Gaza #Lebanon
https://t.co/s7HLfSjn5k via @ft
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Satellite data shows more than 3,100 buildings affected as intense wave of attacks kills over 1,300 people
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Watch this 'Report from Beirut', featuring @mona_fawaz who is a symbol of responsible urban scholarship in resistance - in the midst of the ongoing urbicides: https://t.co/pFmcBZLSXZ
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We get an update from Lebanon, where the death toll from Israeli airstrikes has risen to over 700 since Monday, following a series of explosions involving pagers and walkie-talkies in Beirut and...
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I am sorry to see that despite years of talk, gender inequality is on full display at the #UNGA General Debate. Less than 10% of speakers this week are women. This is unacceptable – especially when we know gender equality delivers for peace, climate action and much more.
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‼️Friends/ People who can support initiatives to help displaced people in #Lebanon- please see link below for a reliable place to give volunteers who have organized to help-
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نحنا حالياً عم نجمع التبرعات اللي رح تتوزع من خلال: 1- مساعدات عينية للناس المحتاجين بحسب الأموال المتاحة. هالمساعدات بتشمل حصص غذائية، ماي صالحة ل
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Our Open Access article, "Smart Barcelona: the gap between inspiring rhetoric and lackluster implementation in transformative approaches" is now out in Planning Practice & Research! @DrTooran @EshitaDutia @Sydney_ADP
https://t.co/3JNboPF9oi
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Barcelona is championed as the exemplary radical smart city, and yet scholarly understandings are typically limited to its theoretical approach and policy rhetoric. This paper, however, interrogate...
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Exciting opportunity! Only a few weeks left to apply for the 2024 #USFInternationalFellowships grant. 📅 Deadline: 5th July, 2024. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Apply now: https://t.co/RKvOV3e1ry
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Upcoming Webinar: ‘South-to-South Dialogue’ is a platform to share research exposing, proposing & politicising ‘just (smart) cities of the Global South’. Register below - if interested in ‘Southern urbanism’, ‘smart urbanism’, & ‘the right to the city’:
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Register on Humanitix - South-to-South Dialogue Webinar hosted by School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Find event information.
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I guess we're reading classics now? Oh yeah, The Place, Race and Critical Theory Reading Group is reading Orientalism. Wednesdays at 12noon on Zoom (Sydney time). DM me if you want to join us.
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The Final Report of the Infrastructure Governance Incubator is finally available! It focuses on the key findings from the Incubator’s major case study research on infrastructure governance in the Western Parklands City project. Link:
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Our latest Open Access paper in @UPRJournal: Meaningful Public Accountability in Collaborative Infrastructure Governance: Lessons from Sydney’s Western Parkland City With @DrTooran , @SearleGlen & @CrystalLegacy1 Paper: https://t.co/VayOHpzmm2
@Sydney_ADP_Res @FestUrbanism
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Within infrastructure governance research, conceptual gaps remain in how to understand public accountability’s manifestations in complex collaborative planning projects. Contrasted with literature,...
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