DUBAI - THE CITY OF THE FUTURE THAT IS SO NOW
New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Milan, Berlin, Moscow - within a decade we will be adding Dubai to the list of the world most important cities.
Dubai is the fastest growing city of the modern world, equalled only by the large Chinese cities. The phenomenal evolution of the city of Dubai is unprecedented.
One of the seven realms that make up the United Arab Emirates, Dubai is an important tourist destination and port (Jebel Ali). It is developing as a hub for service industries such as IT and finance, with the new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
Having expanded along both banks of the Creek, Dubai is divided into two parts - Deira on the northern side and Bur Dubai to the south. Each has its share of stunning public buildings, shopping malls, hotels, office towers, banks, hospitals, schools, apartments and villas. Dubai is blessed with golden sunshine and silvery beaches, world class golf facilities and an upcoming Sports City.
The Dubai government has set up industry specific Free Zones throughout the city including;
• Dubai Internet City, now combined with Dubai Media City as part of TECOM (Dubai Technology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority) is one such zone whose members include IT firms such as EMC Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, IBM, and media organisations such as MBC, CNN, Reuters, ARY and AP.
• Dubai Knowledge Village (KV) is an education and training hub set up to complement the Free Zones other two clusters, Dubai Internet City and Dubai Media City, by providing the facilities to train the clusters’ future knowledge workers.
The property boom is driven by mega projects, such as The Palm, The World, Dubai Marina, the Burj Dubai Complex, Business Bay and Dubailand. The government’s decision to diversify from a trade based but oil reliant economy to one that is service and tourism oriented has made real estate more valuable, resulting in the property boom.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:32 am
There is another Landmark, Burj Dubai which makes Dubai outstanding.
Burj Dubai has now surpassed the earlier record of CN Tower in Toronto, Canada as world’s tallest free-standing structure. Burj Dubai has currently touched a height of 555.3m, with 150 livable levels, which is the largest number of storeys for any building in the world. The tower already holds the credit of being taller than Taipei 101 in Taiwan, which was the tallest building in the world, since its launch in 2004 at 508m.
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