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Spaceship in the Desert : Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi / Gökçe Günel

Günel, Gökçe [Verfasser]

Durham : Duke University Press, [2019]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

1 Online-Ressource (272 p.) : 31 illustrations

Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

978-1-4780-0240-6

LB 73355 LC 51355 ZH 3060 ZH 9400 RR 23909

 

Masdar City  Abu Dhabi  Nachhaltigkeit 

 

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In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi. While many of Masdar's initiatives—such as developing a new energy currency and a driverless rapid transit network—have stalled or not met expectations, Günel analyzes how these initiatives contributed to rendering the future a thinly disguised version of the fossil-fueled present. Spaceship in the Desert tells the story of Masdar, at once a “utopia” sponsored by the Emirati government, and a well-resourced company involving different actors who participated in the project, each with their own agendas and desires.