In the last few years, the Persian Gulf city of Dubai has exploded
from the Arabian sands onto the world stage. Oil wealth, land rent,
and so-called informal economic practices have blanketed the
urbanscape with enormous enclaved developments attracting a global
elite, while the economy runs on a huge army of migrant workers
from the labor-exporting countries of the Indian Ocean and Eurasian
regions. The speed and aesthetic brashness with which the city has
developed have left both scholarly and journalistic observers
baffled and reaching for facile stereotypes with which to capture
its city's identity and significance to the history of urban
planning, architecture, social theory, and capitalism.
In "The Superlative City," contributors from the Harvard
University Graduate School of Design and colleagues from the United
Arab Emirates, the United States, and Denmark offer the most
serious analyses of the city to appear to date. Remarkable aspects
of Dubai, such as the size and theming of real estate projects and
the speed of urbanization, are situated in their local and global
architectural, political, and economic contexts. Planning tactics
and strategies are explained. The visually arresting aspects of
architecture are critiqued but also placed within a holistic view
of the city that takes in the less sensational elements, such as
worker camps and informal urban spaces.
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