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Titre "Vous devriez venir le matin, il y a des gens biens, des sportifs !" Quand le sport habille les sociabilités publiques à Beyrouth
Auteur Christine Delpal
Mir@bel Revue Géocarrefour
Numéro volume 77, no 3, 2002 L'espace public au Moyen-Orient et dans le monde arabe
Page 289-296
Résumé anglais This study of the sea-front Corniche at Beirut analyses the multiplicity of activities undertaken along this area which is visited by a wide range of people. Sporting activities dominate. Every day, at all hours, joggers, families picnicing, narghile smokers, women in veils or in shorts and solitary strollers pass, avoid or observe each other, creating new forms of contact, of self- expression and of social recognition. Currently new areas specifically reserved for sports are developing. Confined within a limited permimetre, these areas result from private initiatives and the commercialisation of sporting activities. In the context of the continued growth of privatised and specialised sporting and recreational areas, will urban sporting activities still enable integration (in all its different forms) into an urban society increasingly threatened by different forms of segregation ?
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