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Edges, Interfaces, and Nexus: New Paradigms for Blue Urban Landscapes in the Gulf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2018

Anna Grichting
Anna Grichting*
Affiliation:
Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; e-mail: anna.grichting@qu.edu.qa
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Gulf cities are generally characterized by their extremely rapid development with resulting demographic increases and imbalances and accompanying environmental degradation. These cities are the flagships of emerging countries that are constructing their national identity while seeking to preserve their traditions and customs and conserve their environments. As they are importing cultural and educational brands, business, and marketing models, they are also creating new hybrid forms and a particular Gulf identity or Gulf urbanism. Until now, resources, technology, and capital have allowed expansion without limits—into the ocean with landfills and artificial islands, into the sky with tall buildings, and into the desert with Zero Energy Cities. Yet the future of nonrenewable energy sources is leading Gulf cities to look towards new postcarbon identities for their countries and improved sustainability and livability for their cities.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 50 , Special Issue 3: Environment and Society in the Middle East and North Africa , August 2018 , pp. 580 - 585
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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