Urban megaprojects-based approach in urban planning: from isolated objects to shaping the city:The case of Dubai

Urban megaprojects are at the core of cities’ re-imaging and marketing. As large-scale development projects, they are considered as a globalization product, marked by a search for spectacle and visibility. In Dubai, UMPs have constituted in recent years the main tool in drawing a city image that aims to compete with the world global cities. Through UMPs, an economy based on spectacle and fascination is being deployed, within a complex system of governance that encompasses family ties, business logic and individualist visions. UMPS are not exceptions or isolated developments, they are in Dubai, a mean through which the city is expanding and being managed. UMPs are here the backbone public planning instrument to what we can call a UMPs-based approach to planning and development. Paradoxically, it is these very large projects, usually associated to urban fragmentation that allow, through their form and processes, the emergence of forms of regulation that articulate actors, institutions, interests, resources, spaces and scales. These adaptations and negotiations are orchestrated in a strategic pilotage manner, through informal, often unveiled ad hoc regulatory spaces. The ultimate goal is to ensure a certain synchronization between temporalities and project through a continuous logic of complementarity and competitiveness.

Grantor dc:publisher

ULiège - Université de Liège

Year dc:date

2016

Author dc:creator

• Aoun, Oula

Contributors dc:contributor

• LEMA

• Urban megaprojects
• Dubai
• urban planning
• Engineering, computing & technology
• Architecture
• Ingénierie, informatique & technologie

Statement dc:rights

• open access
• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Licence

• http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2

Language dc:language

en

Identifier

info:hdl:2268/196944

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/196944