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Dubai : the city of dreams.
LIBRA DVD/PAL 024 324
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Structural engineering--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).
- Structural engineering.
- Architecture--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).
- Architecture.
- Buildings--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).
- Buildings.
- United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (43 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
- polychrome
- Production:
- Dubai Middle East Vision, [2006]
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Regions 2-9; may be played on most computer media players.
- digital
- optical
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "With predictions that the United Arab Emirates would run out of oil in ten years, the cash-rich Kingdom of Dubai decided to create a vacation city for businessmen and European tourists. The multi-billion dollar project has been carved out of the desert on a 24 square kilometre site on the shores of the Arabian Gulf in Dubai. Digging out the desert and bringing the sea inland was a monumental feat of engineering. This oasis in the desert will take 12 years to complete in one of the harshest desert environments. The world's third largest construction site includes the tallest hotel in the world, housing for 100,000 people and striking architecture that has become a symbol for Dubai"--SCN Television web site.
- Participant:
- Narrator: David Deacon.
- Credits:
- Produced by Barna-Alper Productions Inc., and Fiddlehead Entertainment Inc. ; written and directed by Roxana Spicer ; series producer, David Langer ; story producer, Jennifer Power.
- Notes:
- Off-air recording of Channel One 'Frontiers of construction' program, broadcast 20 August, 2013. Copied under part VA of the Copyright Act, 1968.
- Originally produced: 2001.
- Local Notes:
- Issued by the publisher to accompany the book of the same title. University of Pennsylvania Libraries have cataloged these items separately. See Van Pelt/DS/247/D7/D93/2013.
- OCLC:
- 857250649
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