The Ground Between Form and Practice in Beirut Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem Unique in its context, Beirut has been an ideal laboratory for social practices that characterize its urban culture and shape the experience of the city at ground level. These spontaneous practices fill the gap between the city’s capital-driven development and the aspirations/ needs of its inhabitants, transforming Beirut’s ground into a symbiotic environment of cohabitation, as a confrontation to alienating trends that shaped Beirut in its recent history, and as a response to the financial/health/ humanitarian crises that have been enchaining the city since 2019.   This book examines specifically four spatial practices – Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism -  in how they inform and transform the diverse urban morphologies of the city from built matter to cultural organization. Through expansive visual and written narrations, the book constructs a graphical analysis of each practice, its materialization on the ground, its shaping of experience, and its impact on Beirut’s urban transformation through the shifts that the city continues to