 | Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model Subjects: Area Studies; Built Environment; Middle East Studies; Landscape; Planning; Gardens and Designed Landscapes; Landscape and Sustainability; Landscape Conservation Maintenance and Management; Urban Landscape; City and Urban Planning; Spatial and Regional Planning; Urban Design; Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai's Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city's global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy. Using the case study of Dubai, Bolleter explores how Dubai's rulers employ a paradisiacal image of greening the desert, in part, as a tool for political legitimization. Bolleter also evaluates the designed landscapes of Dubai against the principles of the United Nations and the International Federation of Landscape Architects and argues that what is happening in Dubai represents a significant discrepancy between theory and practice. This book offers a new perspective on landscape design that has until now been unexplored. It would be beneficial to academics and students of geography, landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning - particularly those with an interest in Dubai or the many cities in the region that are experiencing Dubaiification. Dr. Julian Bolleter is an Assistant Professor at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia. He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia (1998) and completed his PhD in 2009. He and Richard Weller are co-authors of Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities. Take Me to the River: The Story of Perth's Foreshore is his latest book and won the 2016 Margaret Medcalf Award. (Bowker Author Biography) |
