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Dubai Promises Eco-Friendly Gardens in the Desert
One question that continues to be asked by people around the world is just how big a project can be before it’s absolutely laughable to call it green. The latest mega-project from Dubai stretches the bounds of eco-believability. It’s a $54.4 billion environmentally friendly real estate project stretching over 20,000 acres.
$54 billion Dubai eco-deal, maybe closer than farther away
As it turns out, it isn’t. It’s in Dubai, or is supposed to be. A massive eco-project in Dubai may be coming to fruition. A report out of Arabian Business is talking about an 82-square kilometer project that would border Downtown Burj Dubai to the north and Dubailand to the south. The project is called Mohammed bin Rashid Gardens, and is being developed by Dubai Properties, part of the state-owned conglomerate Dubai Holding.
DP to invite investors for Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens
By the end of this year the Dubai Properties Group will invite local and foreign companies to become its strategic partners for the Dh200-billion Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens, a mixed-use project between Al Khail and Emirates Roads.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Garden City: A Civic Design Masterpiece
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens represent the most innovative approach to urban form to be found anywhere in the Middle East. Celebrating the intricate geometry of Arabian art and science its 56 million square feet of verdant parks and gardens divide an 880 million square foot city into a network of sustainable neighbourhoods, each containing the molecule of daily life.
Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Gardens receives great eclat
The Mohamed bin Rashid Gardens, an ambitious Dhs 200bn parks project launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has received wide acclaimed across the UAE on account of the balance it promises to strike between ecological integrity and real estate necessity.
