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nStaggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous--this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubais ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubais strategy for capturing the worlds attention--and then its investments. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubais spectacular transformation through the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive interviews, private archives, dog-eared photographs, and previously overlooked government documents, Todd Reisz reveals the braggadocio and persistence that sold Dubai as a profitable business plan. Architecture made that plan something to behold. Reisz highlights initial architectural achievements--including the citys first hospital, national bank, and skyscraper--designed as showpieces to proclaim Dubais place on the world stage. Reisz explores the overlooked history of a skyline that did not simply rise from the sands. In the citys earliest modern architecture, he finds the foundations of an urban survival strategy of debt-wielding brinkmanship and constant pitch making. Dubai became a testing ground for the global city--and prefigured how urbanization now happens everywhere. nStaggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous-this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubais ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubais strategy for capturing the worlds attention-and then its investments. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubais spectacular transformation through the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive interviews, private archives, dog-eared photographs, and previously overlooked government documents, Todd Reisz reveals the braggadocio and persistence that sold Dubai as a profitable business plan. Architecture made that plan something to behold. Reisz highlights initial architectural achievements-including the citys first hospital, national bank, and skyscraper-designed
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