ABSTRACT
Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann critically reflect on the nexus of urban development, labour migration and the spread of the Dubai model into other parts of the world. The present folios on Dubai replace an earlier version in the series on Damascus, because the city is considered an extreme example of the dissociation from climatic conditions. The ecological footprint of the UAE is the biggest in the world, even ahead of the US and to a large extent generated by Dubai's booming tourism industry. The maps of the poster Dubai I show the growth of the agglomeration and its population over a sequence of years from 1971 until 2010, growth fed by an enormous inflow of labour migrants from abroad. The artwork Dubai II refers to an illustration Export Dubai' in Al Manakh. It exemplifies the topography of a belt of luxury quarters and business cities from North Africa to China.
