Street map of Dubai at 1:15, 000 covering the city from Al Safa Park to the International Airport & from the Al Jaddaf Development to Port Rashid (without the Maritime City). Four insets show the Dubai Coastal Projects at 1:200, 000, the Al Sufouh / Dubai Marina at 1:40, 000, an overview of the Dubai / Abu Dhabi region at 1:970, 000, & a map of the Dubai Light Metro system. Detail

Includes:: souks & markets, notable buildings, public buildings, shopping malls, car parks, one-way streets, bus & Light Metro stations, mosques, monuments, museums, theatres, sites of interest, hotels, consulates, post offices, police stations, hospitals. Railways & pedestrian areas & staircases are also indicated alongside land use, e.g. parks, cemeteries, industrial areas, attractions, etc. The map is indexed for communities, the main streets, & the Dubai Addressing System.

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Dubai at 1:81, 000 is an indexed map with additional street plans & enlargements of popular regions on the reverse. The publisher has chosen to concentrate on creating a map which will primarily be of use for a tourist navigating between main points of interest as opposed to stressing more detailed cartography. Motorways, main & standard roads are extremely clearly marked. The map should make navigation around Dubai very easy indeed. In keeping with the publisher ...

Laminated & waterproof map for visitors to Dubai, highlighting top 30 sights & combining a street plan of the city & its outer zones with more detailed plans of three central districts. The main plan at 1:85, 000 shows the city & its outer zones, many under construction or still in the planning stages. Along the coast, the plan extends from the Palm Jebel Ali development in the east, across the Palm Jumeirah & The World project to the Palm Deira. Places of interest & selected hotels are highlighted & the light rail stops marked. On the reverse are more detailed plans of the Al Sufouh area, Sheikh Zayed Road, & Deira
- Bur Bubai districts, highlighting sights, hotels, mosques, etc. A small map of the United Arab Emirates at 1:4, 000, 000 shows road connections between the coastal cities & the interior. All the street plans & the map are indexed with names of streets/locations & places of interest. Also included is a political map of the UAE showing its seven emirates, a political map of the whole of the Middle East indicating time zones, & information on Dubai
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Dubai in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

Dubai in the Pocket Guide series from Footprint; comprising a selection of handy, pocket-sized guides designed & written for independent travellers who enjoy exploring off the beaten track. Footprint guides have an established reputation, built up since 1921, for catering for more adventurous & individual travellers. An unrestrictive editorial style also gives authors the freedom to capture & explore local cultures, sights & areas that are often not covered in other guides. Widely recognised for their reliability each Footprint Pocket guide has the same layout. Introductory sections profile the destination, with an overview of the main regions, a trip-planner & information on contemporary life. A Travel Essentials Chapter provides guidance on getting there & around, tours & general tourist information. Each guide is organised geographically by region, with individual sections having a particular focus on an extensive range of sights & places of interest. Further, there are also details of accommodation, nightlife, restaurants & any notable local activities. A Background section explores the history, art & architecture, books & language of the destination. ...

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, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran & India. Dubai is everything the rest of the Arab world is not. Until recently it was the fastest-growing city in the world, with an economy whose growth outpaced China`s while luring more tourists than all of India. The city has become a metaphor for the lush life, where the wealthy mingle in gilded splendour & luxury cars fill the streets, yet it is also beset by a backwash of bad design, environmental degradation & controversial labour practices. Dubai tells its unique story. ...

Dubai & Abu Dhabi in the Frommer's Day By Day series is a pocket-sized guide ideal for short trips, covering a variety of budgets. The best sights of each destination are listed in convenient full-day tours for one, two or three days such as: thematic tours for interests including art, architecture & history are described, allowing you to get the most out of your time; walking tours take you around each destination ...

In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global centre for business, tourism, & luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration, & vertiginous inequality. Its rulers have succeeded in making Dubai into a worldwide br&, publicizing its astonishing hotels & leisure opportunities while at the same time successfully downplaying its complex policies towards guest workers & suppression of dissent. In this enormously readable book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how
- & at what cost
- Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers & beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, & workers from the developing world who provide the manual labour & domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost.

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Few states have achieved such rapid & fundamental change in so short a time as Dubai. From palmfrond huts to sumptuous hotels; from remote oases to vast man-made islands, this desert outpost has in just a few years been transformed into a dynamic & cosmopolitan centre of trade, enterprise &
- most recently
- tourism. This book captures the essence of the Emirate, tracing its history & culture while highlighting the dramatic changes of recent years. The result, with its stunning photography, is a visually arresting portrait of one of the most remarkable economic & cultural transformation stories of the Middle East.

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Dubai Baedeker is divided into four main categories
- background, practicalities, tours & A-Z of sites. The guide is introduced
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