ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to understand how the urban model of Gulf cities has spread out to the margins of the Arab world in Nouakchott, Mauritania and Khartoum, Sudan. Since the 2000s, the expression ‘Learning from Dubai’ has replaced the famous ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ (Venturi, Scott and Izenour 1977). The Gulf cities have become symbols of capitalist success and economic richness, especially in the Arab world, but also in other developing countries, for example in West and East Africa. Since then, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha have epitomized global urban transformations and new development patterns that are perceived to go beyond the urban model of the West (Edensor and Jayne 2012).
