Desert Paradises

Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model

Julian Bolleter

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English

Routledge
29 August 2022

Urban & municipal planning; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design

Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy. Using the case study of Dubai, Bolleter explores how Dubai’s rulers employ a paradisiacal image of greening the desert, in part, as a tool for political legitimization.

Bolleter also evaluates the designed landscapes of Dubai against the principles of the United Nations and the International Federation of Landscape Architects and argues that what is happening in Dubai represents a significant discrepancy between theory and practice.

This book offers a new perspective on landscape design that has until now been unexplored. It would be beneficial to academics and students of geography, landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning – particularly those with an interest in Dubai or the many cities in the region that are experiencing Dubaiification.

By: Julian Bolleter
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032401591
ISBN 10: 1032401591
Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 29 August 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julian Bolleter is Deputy-Director at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia. His role includes teaching a master’s programme in urban design and conducting research and design projects. Julian is a landscape architect and urban designer and has worked in Australia, the United States, the UK and the Middle East. He has published four books: Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities (with Richard Weller), Take Me to the River: A History of Perth’s Foreshore, Scavenging the Suburbs: Auditing Perth for One Million Infill Dwellings and The Ghost Cities of Australia: A Survey of New City Proposals and Their Lessons for Australia’s 21st Century Development.

Reviews for Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model

"""Desert Paradises is a superb analysis of the development of urban landscape in Persian Gulf with a focus on Dubai. This fascinating and historically informed account sheds new light on nuances of landscape urbanism and the complex politics behind it. Providing an original and impactful contribution to landscape design, history and practice, Bolleter handles both breadth and depth of the development of landscape in Dubai with balance and solid supportive arguments. This indispensable study would be an inspiring reading for experts from various fields, including but not limited to, geographers, urban planners, designers, architects, and historians of contemporary Middle East."" Mohamad Gharipour, Morgan State University, USA ""[This book] makes a substantial contribution to the discourse of landscape architecture in the Middle East."" - Julian Raxworthy, (Landscape Review), University of Queensland, Australia"