Spaceship In The Desert
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Spaceship in the Desert
Author: Gökçe Günel
language: en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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.
Spaceship in the Desert. A Review
Masdar City is a planned eco-city outside of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, wholly designed around clean technology and renewable energy. Started in 2006, it was intended as one of the most prominent attempts by the government of the United Arab Emirates to diversify their economy in anticipation of the future depletion of oil reserves. Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi government company devoted to investing in major projects, financed the Masdar City experiment with USD $22bn.
The Invention of the American Desert
Author: Lyle Massey
language: en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 2021-11-02
Introduction / Lyle Massey and James Nisbet -- Desolate dreams / Joseph Masco -- Air, wind, breath, life : desertification and Will Wilson's AIR (Auto-Immune Response) / Jessica L. Horton -- Notes from bioteknika / Albert Narath -- Troglodyte modernists / Lyle Massey -- Explosive modernism : Hiram Hudson Benedict's Bouldereign and Zabriskie Point at 50 / Edward Dimendberg -- Point Omega/Omega Point : desert In three parts / Stefanie Sobelle -- The desert in fine grain / Emily Eliza Scott -- The desert as black mythology / Bridget R. Cooks -- On the recalcitrance of the desert island, by way of Andrea Zittel's A-Z West / James Nisbet -- Four theses for the coming deserts / Hans Baumann and Karen Pinkus.