dubai – world’s fastest growing city
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DUBAI – WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CITY. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. A FEDERATION SOUTHEAST OF ARABIAN PENISULA (SW ASIA) ON PERISAN GULF BORDERS OMAN AND SAUDI ARABIA SHARES SEA BORDERS WITH IRAQ, KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, QATAR & IRAN. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. CALLED EMIRATE RULED BY EMIRES - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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DUBAI – WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CITY
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES• A FEDERATION SOUTHEAST OF ARABIAN PENISULA
(SW ASIA)• ON PERISAN GULF• BORDERS OMAN AND SAUDI ARABIA• SHARES SEA BORDERS WITH IRAQ, KUWAIT,
BAHRAIN, QATAR & IRAN
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES• CALLED EMIRATE RULED BY EMIRES• 7 EMIRATES ABU DHABI, AJMAN, DUBAI, FUJAIRAH,
RAS AL-SKAIMAH, SHARJAH & UMM AL-QUWAIN
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES• BEFORE 1971, THE UAE WAS KNOWN AS THE
TRUCIAL STATES OR TRUCIAL OMAN (REFERENCE TO A 19TH CENTURY TRUCE BETWEEN UK AND SEVERAL ARAB SHEIKHS
• UAE HAS CONSTITUTION & PRESIDENT • CURRENT PRESIDENT KHALIFA BIN ZAYED AL
NAHYAN•
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• UAE IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH NOR A REPUBLIC
• FEDERATION OF 7 MONARCHIES – RULERS HAVE ABSOLUTE POWER WITHIN THEIR EMIRATES
• HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (PRIME MINISTER_ FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SECURITY & DEFENCE NATIONALITY AND IMMIGRATION ISSUES, EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEATH, CURRENCY, POSTAL, TELEPHONE AND OTHER COMMUNICATON SERVICES, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, LABOUR RELATIONS, BANKING, EXTRADTION OF CRIMINALS
• ALL OTHER RESPONSBILITIES NOT GRANTED TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ARE RESERVED TO THE EMIRATES
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DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• LOCATED AT 25.2697° N & 55.3095°E• 16 M ABOVE SEA LEVEL• AREA – 4,110 KM2 ( FROM 3,900 KM2 THROUGH
LAND RECLAMATION PROJECTS• WITHIN ARABIAN DESERT
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DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• SAND – CRUSHED SHELL AND CORAL (FINE,
CLEAN AND WITE)• ALONG BORDER WITH OMAN WESTERN HAJAR
MOUNTAINS
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DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• NO NATURAL RIVER BODIES• DOES HAVE A NATURAL INLET (DUBAI CREEK)
WHICH HAS BEEN DREDGED TO MAKE IT DEEP ENOUGH FOR LARGE VESSELS TO PASS THROUGH
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DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• MUCH OF SOUTH SAND DUNES AND
EVENTUALLY LEADS TO DESERT (THE EMPLY QUARTER)
• VERY STABLE ZONE NEAREST FAULT LINE IS 200KM AWAY (ZAGROS)
• POSSIBILITY OF TSUNAMIS IN REGION IS MINIMAL BECAUSE PERISIAN GULT WATERS ARE NOT DEEP ENOUGH
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DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• VEGETATION WILD GRASSES, DATE PLAMS,
HYACINTHS, ACACIA AND GHAF TREES• CLIMATE – HOT, ARID • SUMMERS – EXTREMELY HOT, WINDY & DRY
(~40°C)• WINTERS – COOL AND SHORT (~23°C)• TOTAL PRECIPITAITON ~150mm
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DUBAI – GOVERNANCE• RULED BY AL MAKTOUM FAMILY SINCE 1833• MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM (VICE
PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER OF UAE AND MEMBER OF SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE UNION)
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DUBAI – GOVERNANCE• DUBAI MUNICIPALITY
(DM) EST. IN 1965 (RASHID bin SAEED AL MAKTOUM)
• PURPOSE – CITY PLANNING, CITIZENSHIP SERVICES AND UPKEEP OF LOCAL FACILITIES
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DUBAI – GOVERNANCE• DM CHAIRED BY HAMDAN BIN
RASHID AL MAKTOUM• DEPUTY RULER OF DUBAI• IN CHARGE OF ROADS,
PLANNING, SURVEY, ENVIORNMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH, FINANCIAL AFFAIRS & SANITAITON AND SEWAGE
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• LARGEST POPULATION OF 7 EMIRATES• 2ND LARGEST LAND MASS (ABU DHABI – 1ST)• ABU DHABI & DUBAI HAVE VETO POWER OVER
CRITICAL NATIONAL IMPORTANCE OVER OTHER EMIRATES
DUBAI – FUNCTION
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AREA 4,114 KM2
POPUALTION (2008)
2,262,000
DENISTY 408.18/KM2
METRO 3,410,737
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62%
7.5%
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• EARLIEST TOWN – 1799 DUBAI• DUBAI FORMALLY EST. IN EARLY
19TH CENTRUL BY AL ABU FALASA CLAN OF BANI
• 1892 UK ASSUMED PROTECTION OF DUBAI (REMAINED UNDER CLAN CONTROL)
DUBAI – FUNCTION
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• GEO. LOCATION IMPORTANT TRADING HUB (PEARL DIVERS)
• PEARL INDUSTRY STRONG UNTIL 1930s• WWI & GREAT DEPRESSION DESTROYED
INDUSTRY JAPAN PRODUCED CULTURED PEARL
• DUBAI DEPRESSION MANY STARVED & MIGRATED OUT
DUBAI – FUNCTION
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DUBAI – FUNCTION
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• BEGINNING OF 20TH CENTURY IMPORTANT PORT
DUBAI – FUNCTION
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DUBAI – FUNCTION
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DUBAI – FUNCTION
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• 1966 – OIL DISCOVERED• RESULT MASSIVE INFLUX OF FOREIGN
WORKERS (POP. OF DUBAI BY 300%)• MODERN DUBAI 1971 AFTER UK LEFT UAE• 1979 FREE TRADE ZONE BUILT AROUND THE
JEBEL ALI PORT (FOREIGN COMPANIES UNRESTRICTED IMPORT OF LABOUR AND EXPORT CAPITAL)
DUBAI – FUNCTION
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• TODAY GLOBAL CITY• BUSINESS HUB• ECONOMY WAS DRIVEN BY OIL MODEL OF
BUSINESS (LIKE THE WEST) & WHAT DRIVES THE ECONOMY
• MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME TOURISM, REAL ESTAE & FINANCIAL SERVICES
DUBAI – FUNCTION
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