Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model (Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design)

By: Julian Bolleter

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Synopsis: Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy. Using the case study of Dubai, Bolleter explores how Dubai’s rulers employ a paradisiacal image of greening the desert, in part, as a tool for political legitimization. Bolleter also evaluates the designed landscapes of Dubai against the principles of the United Nations and the International Federation of Landscape Architects and argues that what is happening in Dubai represents a significant discrepancy between theory and practice. This book offers a new perspective on landscape design that has until now been unexplored. It would be beneficial to academics and students of geography, landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning – particularly those with an interest in Dubai or the many cities in the region that are experiencing Dubaiification.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781351129749
Related ISBNs:: 9781351129763, 9780815355502, 9780815355502
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/16/19
Copyrighted By:: Julian Bolleter
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.