Perfect for the business traveller or the adventurous tourist, this comprehensive guide covers everything from gold-buying tips to desert safaris. Maps detail self-guided walking tours of the historic old town...
Dubai
This is the savvy city breakers' pocket guide to seeing and doing more in Dubai - with a fun-seeking and cost- conscious slant.
It covers the highlights of Dubai, including the Grand Mosque, Bastakia Quarter, the Gold Souk, Ski Dubai, the Dubai Museum, Burj Al Arab, Jumeira Beach and Wadi Wadi water park.
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Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year.
While living in Dubai may require working hard there is also an endless stream of fresh and funky venues where you can play hard too. The exquisite new dining and drinking guide from Explorer Publishing, Posh Nosh, Cheap Eats and Star ...
With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network.
... a micro view – the main locus of the book–by studying the city's low-income areas, home to its migrant community. ... of the city, focusing not so much on its widely circulated images but on some of its hidden spaces and buildings.
A bestselling exploration of the fascinating city-state.
In just two decades, Dubai has reinvented itself from a small, poor and quiet fishing village to a dazzling city with a vibrant urban life.
Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai's population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls,...
Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners enjoying opulent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual ...