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Behavioral Mapping Of Abu Dhabi's Public Spaces: Urban Research Photography And Cultural Clashes

2019, Dubucs, Hadrien, Chaveneau, Clio, Montagne, Clémence

While the study of quotidian practices and daily experiences is now fully appreciated in western urbanism, it is still at an embryonic stage in the emerging new cities of the Middle East. is paper presents an ongoing research project of social-behavioral mapping of Abu Dhabi’s public spaces and its correlation with the existing urban morphology, in an attempt to shed empirical light and update the local public space design guidelines. Photography is one of the observation tools used. However, due to sociocultural conditions, special techniques had to be used. Time- lapse, high-contrasted, undirected street photography was key to visualize both formal and informal activities in the realm of the private.

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Voices of expatriate and bus user women in Abu Dhabi (UAE). Constraints and detour strategies

2014, Montagne, Clémence

In the United Arab Emirates, urban development has followed the construction of a dense road network built to ensure economic development and better connectivity across the territory. However, an efficient intra-urban public transport system was lacking until the modernisation of the bus network, part of the Abu Dhabi 2030 Vision (UPC, 2007, DoT 2008). Abu Dhabi has grown to being a place of highest investment of benefits from an oil and gas economy in a car-centric urban development model, in a very highly socio-economic stratification. As a consequence, daily mobility is highly dependent on private and independent modes of transport. How does the non local women population of Abu Dhabi use the network in a transit unfriendly environment? This article aims at investigating the constraints and the detour strategies of the expatriate women in Abu Dhabi using the limited informal qualitative tools available for research.

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In search of an ecocity in the UAE. Are Jumeirah Lake Towers (Dubai) and Al Reem Island (Abu Dhabi) suitable?

2015, Montagne, Clémence

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Le renforcement du modèle de développement urbain de Dubaï après la crise

2013, Montagne, Clémence