DUBAI – WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CITY

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES• A FEDERATION SOUTHEAST OF ARABIAN PENISULA

(SW ASIA)• ON PERISAN GULF• BORDERS OMAN AND SAUDI ARABIA• SHARES SEA BORDERS WITH IRAQ, KUWAIT,

BAHRAIN, QATAR & IRAN 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES• CALLED EMIRATE RULED BY EMIRES• 7 EMIRATES ABU DHABI, AJMAN, DUBAI, FUJAIRAH,

RAS AL-SKAIMAH, SHARJAH & UMM AL-QUWAIN

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES• BEFORE 1971, THE UAE WAS KNOWN AS THE

TRUCIAL STATES OR TRUCIAL OMAN (REFERENCE TO A 19TH CENTURY TRUCE BETWEEN UK AND SEVERAL ARAB SHEIKHS

• UAE HAS CONSTITUTION & PRESIDENT • CURRENT PRESIDENT KHALIFA BIN ZAYED AL

NAHYAN•

• UAE IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH NOR A REPUBLIC

• FEDERATION OF 7 MONARCHIES – RULERS HAVE ABSOLUTE POWER WITHIN THEIR EMIRATES

• HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (PRIME MINISTER_ FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SECURITY & DEFENCE NATIONALITY AND IMMIGRATION ISSUES, EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEATH, CURRENCY, POSTAL, TELEPHONE AND OTHER COMMUNICATON SERVICES, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, LABOUR RELATIONS, BANKING, EXTRADTION OF CRIMINALS

• ALL OTHER RESPONSBILITIES NOT GRANTED TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ARE RESERVED TO THE EMIRATES

DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• LOCATED AT 25.2697° N & 55.3095°E• 16 M ABOVE SEA LEVEL• AREA – 4,110 KM2 ( FROM 3,900 KM2 THROUGH

LAND RECLAMATION PROJECTS• WITHIN ARABIAN DESERT

DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• SAND – CRUSHED SHELL AND CORAL (FINE,

CLEAN AND WITE)• ALONG BORDER WITH OMAN WESTERN HAJAR

MOUNTAINS

DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• NO NATURAL RIVER BODIES• DOES HAVE A NATURAL INLET (DUBAI CREEK)

WHICH HAS BEEN DREDGED TO MAKE IT DEEP ENOUGH FOR LARGE VESSELS TO PASS THROUGH

DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• MUCH OF SOUTH SAND DUNES AND

EVENTUALLY LEADS TO DESERT (THE EMPLY QUARTER)

• VERY STABLE ZONE NEAREST FAULT LINE IS 200KM AWAY (ZAGROS)

• POSSIBILITY OF TSUNAMIS IN REGION IS MINIMAL BECAUSE PERISIAN GULT WATERS ARE NOT DEEP ENOUGH

DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION• VEGETATION WILD GRASSES, DATE PLAMS,

HYACINTHS, ACACIA AND GHAF TREES• CLIMATE – HOT, ARID • SUMMERS – EXTREMELY HOT, WINDY & DRY

(~40°C)• WINTERS – COOL AND SHORT (~23°C)• TOTAL PRECIPITAITON ~150mm

DUBAI – GOVERNANCE• RULED BY AL MAKTOUM FAMILY SINCE 1833• MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM (VICE

PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER OF UAE AND MEMBER OF SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE UNION)

DUBAI – GOVERNANCE• DUBAI MUNICIPALITY

(DM) EST. IN 1965 (RASHID bin SAEED AL MAKTOUM)

• PURPOSE – CITY PLANNING, CITIZENSHIP SERVICES AND UPKEEP OF LOCAL FACILITIES

DUBAI – GOVERNANCE• DM CHAIRED BY HAMDAN BIN

RASHID AL MAKTOUM• DEPUTY RULER OF DUBAI• IN CHARGE OF ROADS,

PLANNING, SURVEY, ENVIORNMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH, FINANCIAL AFFAIRS & SANITAITON AND SEWAGE

• LARGEST POPULATION OF 7 EMIRATES• 2ND LARGEST LAND MASS (ABU DHABI – 1ST)• ABU DHABI & DUBAI HAVE VETO POWER OVER

CRITICAL NATIONAL IMPORTANCE OVER OTHER EMIRATES

DUBAI – FUNCTION

AREA 4,114 KM2

POPUALTION (2008)

2,262,000

DENISTY 408.18/KM2

METRO 3,410,737

62%

7.5%

• EARLIEST TOWN – 1799 DUBAI• DUBAI FORMALLY EST. IN EARLY

19TH CENTRUL BY AL ABU FALASA CLAN OF BANI

• 1892 UK ASSUMED PROTECTION OF DUBAI (REMAINED UNDER CLAN CONTROL)

DUBAI – FUNCTION

• GEO. LOCATION IMPORTANT TRADING HUB (PEARL DIVERS)

• PEARL INDUSTRY STRONG UNTIL 1930s• WWI & GREAT DEPRESSION DESTROYED

INDUSTRY JAPAN PRODUCED CULTURED PEARL

• DUBAI DEPRESSION MANY STARVED & MIGRATED OUT

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• BEGINNING OF 20TH CENTURY IMPORTANT PORT

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• 1966 – OIL DISCOVERED• RESULT MASSIVE INFLUX OF FOREIGN

WORKERS (POP. OF DUBAI BY 300%)• MODERN DUBAI 1971 AFTER UK LEFT UAE• 1979 FREE TRADE ZONE BUILT AROUND THE

JEBEL ALI PORT (FOREIGN COMPANIES UNRESTRICTED IMPORT OF LABOUR AND EXPORT CAPITAL)

DUBAI – FUNCTION

• TODAY GLOBAL CITY• BUSINESS HUB• ECONOMY WAS DRIVEN BY OIL MODEL OF

BUSINESS (LIKE THE WEST) & WHAT DRIVES THE ECONOMY

• MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME TOURISM, REAL ESTAE & FINANCIAL SERVICES

DUBAI – FUNCTION

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