CONTENTS Preface vii 1 The Emerging Urbanity of Dubai 1 The scope of the book 4 Existing literature 5 The structure of the hook 6 Concluding thoughts: returning to the original vision 9 Epilogue: the city of the future is Dubai 14 2 Arab Cities and Globalization 17 The meaning of globalization 19 The dimensions of globalization: economic, social, cultural 20 The spatial dimension: definition of the global city 21 The global city hypothesis and social polarization 23 Critique of the model: transnationalism/globalization from below 25 Sustainability and globalization 26 Urban governance 27 Status of the Arab city: the great economic: divide 29 3 The Other Dubai: A Photo Essay 32 4 The Illusive History of Dubai 60 Origins and developments 62 The foundation of modern Dubai 63 Forms of resistance and anti-colonialism 65 Travellers' accounts 67 Uubai in the media 71 The Bastakiy'ya district 75 Souq Kabir 83 The Hindu Temple 84 Special Ustadi Kestaurant 88 Baniyas Square 90 Inventing history and creating identity 95 5 The Transformation of Dubai or Towards the Age of Megastructures 102 Dubai in the 1970s: the emergence of a modern city 105 From Masterplan to Structural Flan to Urban Development Framework 107 Dubai's urban morphology: transient urbanism 121 The creation ot a global image 123 Exclusive city 130 6 Spectacular Architecture and Urbanism 133 The theory of the spectacle 134 The Burj Al Arab or lower of the Arabs 137 The Palm Island(s) 142 The tallest building in the world: Burj Duhtii or Tower of Dubai 151 Conclusion: perpetuating an illusion 164 7 The Spectacular and the Everyday: Dubai's Retail Landscape 171 Problernatizing the retail experience 172 Spectacular shopping in Dubai 178 Informal Dubai 187 Dangerous spectacles 201 8 Transient City: Dubai's Forgotten Urban Spaces 206 Globalization and cities 208 Dubai, a migrant city? 212 Surveying the city's urban public spaces: transitory settings 216 Tlie other city 229 Transnational cities - transnational spaces 241 9 Global Dubai or Dubaization 249 The Dubai model? 250 Dubaization in the Middle East 256 The case of Cairo 262 Conclusion: the true Dubai model 273 Bibliography 280 Index 286