(When) Will Dubai Recover?
In an article this week in the Los Angeles Times, architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne discusses the intriguing architectural makeup of Dubai and presents the case for the emirate’s recovery.
Dubai, says Hawthorne, is composed of separate mini cities within a city, each a near-exact architectural replica of another city or development around the world, thus providing the rest of the world with a purebred example of how a newly minted city looks when its developers are not hindered by zoning codes or by push-back from residents fighting to preserve a neighborhood’s history. Slated to become the tallest building in the world when it is completed later this year, the Burj Dubai skyscraper is just one tower in Dubai’s Manhattan-like Sheikh Zayed corridor.
Because the emirate’s ruling family, led by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, controls all of the major real estate companies, Dubai’s urban planners and developers are essentially one and the same, explains Hawthorne. The result is a plethora of shopping plazas and office parks, not tributes to historical figures or even notable government buildings.
Hawthorne believes Dubai will not only recover (largely in part to the $10 billion bailout it has received from the neighboring emirate Abu Dhabi), but it will also continue to export its unique brand of architecture, urbanism and development to other cities worldwide, as evidenced by the $8.6 billion CityCenter development on the Las Vegas Strip, funded in part by the investment group Dubai World.
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– Sarah Binder
Not sure that this is true:), but thanks for a post.
Bodyc
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Nice Post. I have a belief that Dubai will recover everything very soon. We people just need some Patience.
It is confirmed that Dubai Real Estate Market will recover but can’t say that when it will recover but just believe that every thing will become fine very soon in Dubai.
Good article. Because fighting for the civil rights of people who don’t want to displaced and maintaining a city’s history and heritage are such horrible things. How dare these things stand in the way of ‘progress.’ Culture is such an inconvenience.