Where the sidewalk ends: Informal street corner encounters in Dubai
Where the sidewalk ends: Informal street corner encounters in Dubai
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cities.2012.12.001
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发表时间：
2013-04
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影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Y. Elsheshtawy
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作者：
Y. Elsheshtawy
对迪拜的研究通常集中在壮观和城市的快速城市转型。本研究试图超越城市景观，通过提供一个详细的，经验性的帐户，在其低收入区之一，Hor Al Anz的街道。该社区是南亚移民工人的聚集地，对他们来说，街道是公共互动的唯一途径。尤其是街角，成为社会聚会的场所，从而为这些农民工的生活提供了一个缩影。这项研究是在一个更大的背景下，非正式的城市居民把事情掌握在自己的手中，开始颠覆既定的规划做法。此外，我还简要介绍了迪拜的城市发展，以使案例研究，特别是在移民法和给予这些移民的地方。在这方面使用了普查数据和媒体报道内容分析。这项研究采用了一种独特的制图方法，利用地理信息系统技术，行为映射和录像。其结果是一个详细的写照街道的内心生活。通过这种方式，政策制定者和城市规划者可以对这些农民工的生活进行更细致、更丰富的了解。调查结果应该导致对居民生活的更有同情心的理解，并相应地规划更能满足他们需求的空间和社区。
Research on Dubai has typically focused on the spectacular and the city’s rapid urban transformation. This study seeks to go beyond the city as spectacle by offering a detailed, empirical account of a street in one of its low-income districts, Hor Al Anz. The neighborhood is a locale for South-Asian migrant workers, for whom the street is the only recourse for public interaction. The street-corner in particular becomes a site for social gatherings, and thus provides a microcosm for the lives of these migrant workers. The study is set within a larger context of informal urbanism where city residents take matters into their own hand and begin to subvert established planning practices. Moreover, I am also providing a brief overview of Dubai’s urban development to contextualize the case study, in particular looking at immigration laws and the place accorded to such migrants. Census data and content analysis of media reports have been used in that regard. The study adopts a unique mapping methodology utilizing GIS technologies, behavioral mapping and videography. The result is a detailed portrayal of the street’s inner life. Through this, policy makers and urban planners would have at their disposal a much more nuanced and richer depictions of the lives of these migrant workers. Findings should lead to a more empathetic understanding of inhabitants’ lives and accordingly spaces and neighborhoods would be planned which are more responsive to their needs.