Dubai. Cidade do Espectáculo

• Autor(a) principal: Luís Diogo Alves Paula de Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/80394
• topic: Artes; Arts

In the last two decades and at a high speed we've watched the transformation of the small fishing village of Dubai in one the main touristic destinations of the world. With several world Guinness records like the tallest building "Burj Khalifa" or the most luxurious hotel of the world "Burj al Arab" Dubai has become one of today's most well known cities . In this process, architecture seems to have played an important role. It was through the spectacularity, exuberance and luxury of the built projects that Dubai has attracted not only the media but also thousands of tourists around the world. As a marketing campaign, the buildings, valued only by their image, seem to have been reduced to mere products by which the city promotes itself. Products where architecture reduces itself to an image, an experience; in its essence a spectacle. In order to understand the actual morphology and urban development strategy of Dubai, this work seeks not only to understand the social, economical and political factors behind its origin, but also to reflect about the viability of this model where the the quality of architecture seems to be reduced to its image.