Author(s): Ruben Garcia Rubio & Tiziano Aglieri Rinella
This paper will attempt to highlight the land reclamation as an instrument of urban planning. To achieve this goal, Dubai will be considered as a case study and, specially, Reima and Raili Pietil盲鈥檚 proposal for the Deira Sea Corniche Competition as a visionary proposal which anticipated the creation of artificial islands in the city. Describing the history of the Dubai鈥檚 coastline and analyzing the Pietil盲s鈥 project for its innovative and -at the same time- contextual ideas, the paper will not only offer a new way to approach urban design in Dubai but also to consider the value of land reclamation as a tool for urban development -with its strengths and weaknesses- in order to avoid land consumption and to allow the preservation of most part of the coastline.
Volume Editors
脕ngela Garc铆a de Paredes, I帽aqui Carnicero & Julio Salcedo-Fernandez
ISBN
978-1-944214-18-0