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Dubai - Klaus H. Carl
Klaus H. Carl
DUBAI
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ISBN: 978-1-63919-882-5
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Contents
From the desert to the Gulf
Before the Discovery of Oil
Geography
The Economy
Religion
The State
The People
The City
The Creek
Deira
Bur Dubai
Umm Hureir
Satwa
Jumeirah
Hatta
Conclusion
Timeline
Biography
List of Illustrations
1. Aerial view of the Dubai Creek with many dhows
A people that does not know its past has neither a present nor a future.
Sheikh Saeed
DUBAI
Dubai is not only, as is occasionally rumored, do buy
– a place to purchase duty free or go shopping in the more than thirty elegant shopping malls or in the souks. Above all, Dubai is a busy city that stands in sharp contrast to the desert hinterland, cosmopolitan like few others, filled with friendly, helpful and gregarious people who welcome everybody who does not walk around in shabby shorts or with an exposed midriff. It is a city whose traffic awakens to life at about eight o’clock every morning when white collar employees and dockworkers begin traveling to their jobs. The short rush hour begins about an hour later with the larger cars of the manager and higher-level employees, those who have driven small cars long enough to want to demonstrate their status. Soon most of the inner-city parking lots are filled.
Dubai continues to expand and because of this has become an El Dorado for architects and engineers, who here enjoy a freedom to transform their ideas for construction projects and buildings into reality found in only very few places in the world. Thanks to an elegant and extremely clever traffic system that in many cases avoids intersections and is of course aided by the four-lane and six-lane highways leading into and out of the city, Dubai has comparatively fewer stoplights and thus fewer traffic jams than most Western towns that measure their importance by the number of traffic lights they have installed. Dubai is a city whose building fronts and patterned-tile underpass walls are completely free of the artistry
of the wild graffiti sprayers, although it is impossible to determine whether the sprayers
have not yet reached Dubai or already left it behind them. It is also – what joy for pedestrians – a city without dogs and their droppings and with an unusually small pigeon population. In their place one finds an unbelievably large number of gulls, who have made their nests in the greenery near the golf and yacht club, circling above the clean waters of the Creek in their search for prey.
But Dubai is also a city of hard physical labor. The large number of workers on road building crews in the expanding areas or at the quay of the Creek clearly demonstrates this. At the quay, the dhows are anchored in double and triple rows, as close together as the goods they hold. The constant loading and unloading of goods on swaying gangplanks, picturesque but sweaty and nearly unceasing work – large equipment like cranes are used only for the heaviest loads – speaks for itself. The belly of a dhow swallows and transports anything the market demands, whether a small package or a pipeline, car tires or even entire trucks.
Of course, Dubai is also a city of luxury and wealth, recognizable not only in the golf club and exclusive hotels, evident in the horse and camel races or discreetly hidden behind mirrored facades, but also in jewelers’ displays behind bulletproof glass or the international houses of fashion design.
Dubai is all of this, and more. No one word can describe it, but if the quality of the paper used to print newspapers is any measure of quality, Dubai is surely among the wealthiest cities in the world.
2. An Emirate
3. Sparkling façades of the Creek