Dubai, UAE Urban Design

The Dubai Mall is indeed the latest in a century-long series of attempts to use centralized planning to create vibrant and dynamic environments. It brings together mixed uses in an economically rich atmosphere with the design of offering a community center much as planners such as Howard and Le Corbusier envisioned. It builds on the widespread use of malls in the United States and elsewhere, and combines the mall concept with the even larger concept of urban planning. In this way, the Dubai Mall becomes not just a mall, but an urban environment where shopping is mixed with other everyday activities. Indeed, the mall has distinct "mini malls" within its confines that stretch Gruen's vision to its limit-if a mall is the size of a small city, can it still function as a community social gathering place? The Dubai mall is in keeping with other developments in the UAE which seek to provide the federation wit

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