Case Study Dubai: Or Learning from Junk Space Deluxe

Boris Brorman Jensen’s study of the city (part of a series of studies that include the transformation of Bangkok and of Astana, Kazakhstan, which the author terms the ‘Absurdistan Case’), reveals the most evident manifestation of the amalgam of tourism, entertainment and real estate in what he describes as the ‘dynamics of bingo urbanism’. In this latter-day metropolis, where conventional understandings of the city have been exchanged for a topography of excess, we are left wondering about the character of the opportunities that Dubai presents.

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