Uncommon Dubai +

People, Place, Narrative

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2018
Uncommon Ltd (Verlag)
978-99957-872-2-6 (ISBN)

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Often perceived as an ersatz destination, DUBAI has evoled to become the model of a city urbanized under accelerated forces and by highly mobile populations. Amidst the challenges of identity, belonging and the effects of rapid urban development, local narratives reveal differentiated and dynamic experiences.

Uncommon Dubai + is a sliver of quotidian and artistic reflections on spaces of change and exchange, imbued with meaning and memory for individuals, communities and diasporas that enrich the city and its neighboring emirates: Weave through insights on the tradition of camel racing, archeological finds of crocodiles in the desert, the uncanny urban corridors of superhighways, architectural artifacts in danger of erasure, the imagined communities of barbershops, the communal traces of ad-hoc cricket pitches, and the resilience of the urban fox. Against the backdrop of the morphing coastline and the alluring locus of the creek, explore memoirs, investigations and poetic landscapes of the mind that are meant to engage with the contrasts of the cit y and offer collective aspirations for its past, present and possible futures.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Valletta
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Naher Osten
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseführer
ISBN-10	99957-872-2-9 / 9995787229
ISBN-13	978-99957-872-2-6 / 9789995787226
Zustand	Neuware