international analysis
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RUDI's international section focuses on urbanism and sustainability around the world.All countries and regions face unique challenges. Demographics, economics and climactic/geographical variations call for specific placemaking approaches.Our first major section of international content will focus on the Middlle East, notably the Arabian Gulf.This will be followed by a focus on development in Delhi, Mumbai and other rapidly developing urban centres across India.Our final focus for 2006 will be the urbanisation of several major Chinese cities.We welcome suggestions as to our readers' areas of interest, please contact us with your comments. Click here for a 'quick link' to a listing, by title, in date published order of articles, to provide fast access to information for those of you who know what you are looking for. |
Waterfront Dubai: the Middle East creates a model for the future
Waterfront developments across the Middle East are creating large new urban communities. This Middle East-centered trend is particularly concerned with creating new waterfronts and reshaped urban coastlines involving substantial land reclamation, as well as 'canalling' water channels inland. By Rupak Chatterjee
Dubai, the UAE and the Gulf region: overviews of infrastructure, construction and Government
Much research has already been done on the background and conditions supporting the incredible growth of the Gulf states. RUDI has put together an at-a-glance review of the most accurate and up-to-date data currently available from independent researchers in the region
Bigger, taller, better? Dubai's major projects
The list of major urban developments underway in the emirate of Dubai has to be seen to be believed. The list is updated constantly, but here are most of the major projects, each with links to further sources of information
Sinister paradise: does the road to the future end at Dubai?
A new urban paradise or the latest twist on Bladerunner? Urbanist and author Mike Davies offers a unique take on why Dubai is the way it is, and what that may mean for the future of urbanism...
Visit RUDI's urban agenda to read interviews with urbanist and author Mike Davies as he speaks of dead cities and slum dwellings
Welcome to the Gulf's fantasy islands - and their reality
Across the Gulf, massive artificial island developments that could house more than 500,000 people are being developed up to 20km offshore. But are such offshore develoments sustainable? By Juliana O'Rourke. Photos by Mohamed Panchbaya
Dubai, Dubai, quite contrary: how does the city grow?
Dubai’s unique combination of governmental structure, commercial policy and planning regime has created an incredible urban development movement that is being eagerly copied around the region and beyond. By Juliana O'Rourke, photos by Mohamed Panchbaya
Sustainable urban development in Dubai (and beyond)
Buildings needn’t cost the earth – sustainable ‘green’ developments can be economically viable when whole life costs are taken into account. But do we need to regulate for sustainability? By Rupak ChatterjeeBased on a lecture by Professor Phillip Jones (Head of School, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University) at the British University in Dubai (BUID)
Trains, planes and automobiles: transport planning in Dubai
Dubai has a rapidly growing population and severe traffic congestion problems. The population has grown from 183,000 inhabitants in 1970 to roughly 1.1 million today, and the increase is forecast to continue at an annual rate of 6.4 per cent to reach some 3 million inhabitants by 2017.Transport planning, including light rail and railways, takes off in Dubai and the UAE to relieve an increasingly overburdened road system...
Skilling the workforce for Middle Eastern development
Built environment professionals across the UAE and the Middle East are calling for more regionally accessible career-based educational and training programmes...
