ABSTRACT
In February 2007, Dubai World Central in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—the largest master-planned settlement on earth, the “most strategically important infrastructure development”—opened the gates to one of its most ambitious projects: Logistics City (Figure 5.1). Dubai World Central encompasses a wide range of specialized zones and uses, but Logistics City is perhaps the most unusual and intriguing element of the plan. Logistics, the design and management of supply chains, has become so critical to just-in-time globalized production and circulation systems over the past four decades that there is now a city named in its honor. Urban space is conceived and produced for the singular purpose of securing the management and mass movement of globally bound stuff.
