The book is 192 pages, with color photographs and infographics; it holds the ISBN 978-9953-0-1537-8, and it includes a poster by Danny Khoury and a documentary DVD by Lasse Lau. The first edition was published by DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS in 2010 with the support of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung-Middle East Office.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Hyding the Park George Arbid
Introduction: The Discursive Formations of Reinhabiting & Recovery Fadi Shayya

Part One: An Intricate Urban Context

Beirut Became Her Sea. So, Let’s Plant the Sea! Bilal Khbeiz
From Woods to Park: A Historical & Ethnographic Investigation of Programming the Landscape of the Horsh Fadi Shayya
Kill Him, Crush Him: No Trespassing in the Woods Bachar Al-Amine
Re: No Choice Fouad Asfour
A Transforming Landscape Images courtesy GIS Transport & Directorate of Geographic Affairs
Evolution of the Horsh Infographics by Fadi Shayya, Lina Abou Reslan, & Nancy Hamad
Beyrouth-Promenade des Pins (circa 1895) Postcard by Anonymous
Seeing the Imaginary: A Story behind Pine Nuts Lasse Lau
Silent Witnesses: Old Pine Trees of the Horsh Photos by Danny Khoury
Pine Trees Don’t Make Pine Nuts Anymore Painting by Sumayyah Samaha

Part Two: Heterotopias of Park & City

On Modernity, Urbanity, & Urban Dwellers Hussein Yaakoub
The Real Versus the Imagined City: A Traveler’s Notes on Imagining Public Space Fadi Shayya
Zone 9: The Horsh in the Master Plan of Beirut Master Plan Courtesy the Municipality of Beirut
Thoughts on the Horsh on a Sleepless Night: Dichotomies of Space, Values, Ethics, and Us Jana Nakhal
Stitching the Scar: The Horsh as a Site for “Collected Memories” Rola Idris
More Green Space Disappears: ISF to Take 9,000 Square Meters of Horsh Beirut: The Municipality has Agreed that a Temporary Police Station Can Be Built Nada Bakri
From Non-Sense to Economic-Sense Lana Salman
Excluding & Excluded: The Nature and Processes of Exclusion from the City Tara Mahfoud
Odyssey in the Park: A Journey of Understanding Women & Public Space Nancy Hamad, Sara AbouGhazal, & Jana Nakhal
Horsh Mosaic Infographics by François Eid
What He Didn’t Tell Me or Perhaps What He Didn’t Know… Ghassan Maasri
Open Public Spaces in Beirut Infographics by Fadi Shayya, Lina Abou Reslan, & Nancy Hamad
Terra Verte Marwan Rechmaoui

Part Three: Transient Citizenship, Transient Public Space

The Empty Park: Deciphering Ideas of Public Space and Citizenship in Horsh Beirut Rana Andraos
Beyrouth – La Forêt des Pins – Les Courses (circa 1920) Postcard by Anonymous
The Horsh in Lebanese Law Compiled by Bassam Shayya
2005 Research Interviews Fadi Shayya
Beirut’s Public Space (or Lack Thereof) Hanin Ghaddar
If It Exists, Sensibility Is Not Enough: Struggle for Urban Parks in Beirut Salman Abbas
Beyrouth – Promenade des Pins (circa 1935) Postcard by Anonymous
MP, Activist See Red over Green Spaces: AUB Debate over Parks Generates More Heat than Light Samar Kanafani
Structural Connectivity: Alternative Design Strategies to Reconnect the Park to its Context Studio ALBA
A Picnic in “Bois des Pins” The Picnic Group
“Take Only Memories, Leave Nothing but Footprints” Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon
Inside Out [1]: Contemporary Photographic Documentation of the Horsh Photos by Fouad Asfour
Inside Out [2]: Contemporary Photographic Documentation of the Horsh Photo by Fadi Shayya
Beirut Park Poster by Danny Khoury
A Comparative Perspective of Open, Green Spaces Infographics by Gregoire Serof & Serge Serof
Book Covers Artwork by Danny Khoury