Present and future of public spaces in Dubai
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https://doi.org/10.6093/2531-9906/10647Keywords:
Regeneration, Offshore urbanism, Citizenship rights, POPS, Informal spacesAbstract
The paper traces the debate that emerged during the "Mediterranean Urban Design & Regeneration Event" at the Italian Pavilion of Dubai Expo 2020, in which a representative of the Department of Architecture ("Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara), together with Middle Eastern universities, discussed the future of public spaces in Dubai, retracing the history of its urban development and outlining strategic guidelines for the regeneration of some pilot areas, identified in the consolidated urban fabric. This initiative was promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, following a call for proposals on the topic "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future", a focus on aspects related to opportunities, mobility sustainability both from a material point of view (infrastructures and environmental resources), and from an intangible point of view, through the sharing of creative content and experiences and the dissemination of innovative cultural and scientific projects.
Through online meetings (including with partners from the schools of architecture and engineering in Dubai and Abu Dhabi) and then over the course of six in-person panel discussions, our proposed intensive workshop sought to spark a dialogue between two different approaches to urban design, the Mediterranean and the Middle Eastern, using the context of Dubai, the global capital of capitalism and neoliberal urbanism, as a kind of "stress test" for the concept of public open space.
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Worpole, K., Knox, K. (2007). The social value of public spaces. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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Angrilli, M., & Ciuffreda, V. (2023). Present and future of public spaces in Dubai. UPLanD - Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & Environmental Design, 7(2), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.6093/2531-9906/10647
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