Dubai Is An Urban DISASTER. Can It Be Saved?

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Try Opera browser FOR FREE here: https://opr.as/Opera-browser-theaestheticcity —— Want the tools to defend and create beautiful cities, without the guesswork? Join our City Builder Blueprint newsletter and grab the free '10X City Guide'. https://the-aesthetic-city.kit.com/signup ——— In this video we do a deep dive in the city of Dubai, one of the world’s most controversial cities. The main question of this video: can this massive city… sustain? With massive resource consumption, environmental pressures, and an insistence on building skyscrapers by a who’s who of international starchitects, is Dubai heading for trouble? In this video, we dive into whether the city is doomed or not and share insights on how it could turn things around with smarter urban design. We’ll look at how traditional architecture might actually hold the key to saving the city, plus ideas on fixing its car-heavy transport system. And let’s not forget Dubai’s reliance on international trade networks and supply chains, which leaves it vulnerable—making Dubai a bit of a mirror for the challenges our own society faces. We tried not to only bash this city, but to come with suggestions of how Dubai could potentially improve - which will be hard, but not impossible. ——— ✨ Subscribe to our substack: https://substack.com/@theaestheticcity?utm_source=profile-page 🎙️ Listen to our podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4cU3tcGKXiziKGuvfd3KIa?si=32da1b2ed8f44d79 💪🏽 Support this channel by becoming a patron:  https://www.patreon.com/the_aesthetic_city 𝕏 Follow us on X:https://x.com/_Aesthetic_City 🗣️ Join the community on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wQ7zPKUTC2 💻 Visit our website: https://theaestheticcity.com ========== Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission if you click on them and make a purchase. This comes at no additional cost to you and helps support the channel. 🎥 Video equipment I used: Sony A7siii - https://amzn.to/407B2Ru Sony - FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS https://amzn.to/3GLYWLw Sony Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 https://amzn.to/3zX1D9h Ronin RS 3 - https://amzn.to/40hJde8 Apple Macbook Pro M1 Max https://amzn.to/3L1iHRE Røde Wireless Go II https://amzn.to/3IIvGpR 📖 Favourite Urbanism & Architecture Books Léon Krier: The Architecture of Community - https://amzn.to/4cVhS8e Nir Buras: The Art of Classic Planning - https://amzn.to/3Wjhriz Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities - https://amzn.to/4cy7CTq Vitruvius Pollio: The Ten Books on Architecture - https://amzn.to/4cyxwXh Charles Montgomery: Happy City - https://amzn.to/3LldSlC Malcolm Millais: Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture - https://amzn.to/3Wh45mJ James Stevens Curl: Making Dystopia - https://amzn.to/3zFzN4s Branko Mitrovic: Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud - https://amzn.to/3RZTD0s Tom Wolfe: From Bauhaus to Our House - https://amzn.to/3S5mgtb =========== 🎶 Music: Desert Nights - In This World - 4U4TPMBXBKYZ0RBT Hidden City - In This World - ICFPZOFX9BVHLZXY Transporter - Falls - RNBGWFFTM40YUYWH Outlandia - Falls - WDUEI4TJO3U3HR3F Allons-y - Falls - IZFIHUSWFRY2JYWK ========== 👉Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - Part 1: The Rise of Dubai 04:46 - Part 2: Crucial Flaws 09:43 - Part 3: Saving Dubai 13:03 - Conclusion: Is Dubai Doomed? ©️ Copyright info: Angela Manthorpe, CC BY-SA 4.0 Vincent Eisfeld / vincent-eisfeld_de / CC BY-SA 4.0 Liz Lawley Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Alamy BDG4JM Kjell Olsen CC BY-SA 2.0 SiefkinDR, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International  Kittelträger - CC-by-sa 4.0 Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021 - CC Attribution 2.0 Generic Anja Vrečko - ATTRIBUTION 2.0 GENERIC Samuel Bailey  - Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Kaveh Parseh - ATTRIBUTION-SHAREALIKE 4.0 INTERNATIONAL Colegota -  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Black Swan book: Alan Levine, on PxHere