Dubai Syndrome..

Dubai is a wonderful example on how communities would unexpectedly shape up, and how it would draw its own decomposition. In an unorthodox way; Dubai was not a case of urban regeneration, but city regeneration; which supposedly maintains all aspects of sustainability and growth. Cities usually take many decades to grow, transform and then-reshape; but Dubai had it all within couple of decades.

The professional journey from John Harris’s Master Plans of 1959 and 1971, to Doxiadis’s of 1988, till the “Many Cities within a City” of 2004; is full of various urban profiles. For a long time ahead; “Dubai Syndrome” will be there for inspiring, imitating, cursing and/or humiliating as well. Its parameters of time, place and people were amazing in a socio-economic sense, also its own brand of overwhelming, exhaustion and devastation on political-cultural one.

Reporters, researchers and scholars were inevitably confused with the cultural set-up; which unprecedented, unmatched and unique. Therefore; Dubai 1990-2010 would be a good reference for many visionaries, managers or strategists, to visualize the learned lessons on developing an urban center within the challenges of 21st century.