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020			_a9781478000914
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/00029 _d: 10/7/2024
082			_a307.1 GUN
100			_aGunel, Gokce.
245			_aSpaceship in the Desert _b: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi. _c/ Gokce Gunel.
260			_a, London _b: Duke University Press _c, 2019.
300			_axi, 256p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1990
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aMasdar City
650			_aConstruction of Masdar City's
650			_aEnergy currency
700			_aGokce Gunel.
942			_cBOOK
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