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Dubai Creek
Posted by Mike Klassen on November 17, 2007 in Vancouver
As Michael Geller recently pointed out in his talk to the PIBC the designers of Dubai have been lifting elements of Vancouver's False Creek urban design for their own, right down to using the exact same railing along False Creek (almost). The background is named Dubai Creek. Planner Trevor Boddy calls this Vancouverism.
This photo (courtesy Flickr) is of some of the 250,000 South Asian labourers working in that city.
Vancouver just lost 5 senior city planners to Abu Dhabi to help them plan and build a new world in the desert.
Tagged: dubai, false creek, vancouverism
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Excellent post, Michael. I've read quite a bit about the rapid development of Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Middle East. I admire Dubai's ambition, but I wonder at the desirability of building a teeming metropolis in a sun-baked desert. All the urban planners in the world will have difficulty overcoming the basic sustainability challenge the entire region - no water. How long can petrodollars and thrifty investments compensate for that? Maybe I'm just missing something...