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Spaceship in the Desert - Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,295
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Spaceship in the Desert - Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Hardcover): Goekce Gunel

Spaceship in the Desert - Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Hardcover)

Goekce Gunel

Series: Experimental Futures

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In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Goekce Gunel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi. While many of Masdar's initiatives-such as developing a new energy currency and a driverless rapid transit network-have stalled or not met expectations, Gunel analyzes how these initiatives contributed to rendering the future a thinly disguised version of the fossil-fueled present. Spaceship in the Desert tells the story of Masdar, at once a "utopia" sponsored by the Emirati government, and a well-resourced company involving different actors who participated in the project, each with their own agendas and desires.

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Experimental Futures
Release date: 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: Goekce Gunel
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0072-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 1-4780-0072-4
Barcode: 9781478000723

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