as planners this is a seriously disturbing video about Dubai's migrant worker population and lack of affordable housing. How could this even be produced??
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Incredible. "Invisible alliance"? This sounds like double speak of 1984 proportions.
This would have separate bedrooms with communal living and cooking space. What about families?
I don't know much about the current housing of the construction and service workers, but this doesn't seem very dignified.
The honesty is ahem... refreshing... (note the part where they talk about the window units as being "revenue generating")...
The interesting question is: does Dubai actually think that they can create a homogenously ultra-rich city where the service workers are shuttled to and from their jobs (at what? gunpoint?!).
What happens when middle class individuals (or god forbid! RICH individuals) start buying or moving into the "affordable" and "livable" tenant units, or start frequenting the "poor cafeterias"?
What will the addition of all this available housing mean for the city 20 or 30 years from now.
The intentions are horrible, but the actual ends may not be what they would have hoped for.
There does seem to be an open question about the authenticity of the video maker...
Several things about the video seem incongruent on a second thought...
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