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In the 1950s, with a population of a few thousand souls who scraped a living in a waterless desert by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran and India, Dubai was as poor as any village in Somalia or the Sudan. Today freewheeling Dubai is everything the rest of the Arab world is not. It is capitalism on cocaine, Las Vegas without the gambling but twice the number of prostitutes. It is the fastest-growing city in the world, with an economy that outpaced China's last year while luring more tourists than all of India. It is one of the world's safest places, but it lies a stone's throw from its most dangerous. Shimmering skyscrapers hide gritty 24-hour construction at ground level. The city has become a metaphor for the lush life, where celebrities like Tiger Woods and George Clooney mingle in gilded splendour and where so many luxury cars fill the streets that crashes between two Porsches are not uncommon. Yet the city is also beset by a backwash of bad design, environmental degradation and labour practices that veer close to slavery. This small Arab sheikhdom, one of seven semi-autonomous states within the United Arab Emirates, has become an icon of the future and a rising force in the Middle East, a news story that affects us all, Dubai tells its unique story.Product Identifiers
PublisherAtlantic Books
ISBN-139781848870093
eBay Product ID (ePID)91970275
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDubai: the Story of the World's Fastest City
Publication Year2010
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorJim Krane
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight368 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJim Krane