1. DUBAI – WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CITY

2. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
A FEDERATION  SOUTHEAST OF ARABIAN PENISULA (SW ASIA)
ON PERISAN GULF
BORDERS OMAN AND SAUDI ARABIA
SHARES SEA BORDERS WITH IRAQ, KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, QATAR & IRAN 

4. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES CALLED EMIRATE  RULED BY EMIRES
7 EMIRATES  ABU DHABI, AJMAN, DUBAI, FUJAIRAH, RAS AL-SKAIMAH, SHARJAH & UMM AL-QUWAIN

5. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
BEFORE 1971, THE UAE WAS KNOWN AS THE TRUCIAL STATES OR TRUCIAL OMAN (REFERENCE TO A 19TH CENTURY TRUCE BETWEEN UK AND SEVERAL ARAB SHEIKHS
UAE HAS CONSTITUTION & PRESIDENT
CURRENT PRESIDENT KHALIFA BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN

6. UAE IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH NOR A REPUBLIC
FEDERATION OF 7 MONARCHIES – RULEES HAVE ABSOLUTE POWER WITHIN THEIR EMIRATES

7. HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (PRIME MINISTER_  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SECURITY & DEFENCE NATIONALITY AND IMMIGRATION ISSUES, EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEATH, CURRENCY, POSTAL, TELEPHONE AND OTHER COMMUNICATON SERVICES, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, LABOUR RELATIONS, BANKING, EXTRADTION OF CRIMINALS
ALL OTHER RESPONSBILITIES NOT GRANTED TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ARE RESERVED TO THE EMIRATES

8. DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION
LOCATED AT ° N & °E
16 M ABOVE SEA LEVEL
AREA – 4,110 KM2 ( FROM 3,900 KM2 THROUGH LAND RECLAMATION PROJECTS
WITHIN ARABIAN DESERT

9. DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION
SAND – CRUSHED SHELL AND CORAL (FINE, CLEAN AND WITE)
ALONG BORDER WITH OMAN  WESTERN HAJAR MOUNTAINS

10. DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION
NO NATURAL RIVER BODIES
DOES HAVE A NATURAL INLET (DUBAI CREEK) WHICH HAS BEEN DREDGED TO MAKE IT DEEP ENOUGH FOR LARGE VESSELS TO PASS THROUGH

11. DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION
MUCH OF SOUTH  SAND DUNES AND EVENTUALLY LEADS TO DESERT (THE EMPTY QUARTER)
VERY STABLE ZONE  NEAREST FAULT LINE IS 200KM AWAY (ZAGROS)
POSSIBILITY OF TSUNAMIS IN REGION IS MINIMAL BECAUSE PERISIAN GULT WATERS ARE NOT DEEP ENOUGH

12. DUBAI – SITE & SITUATION
VEGETATION  WILD GRASSES, DATE PLAMS, HYACINTHS, ACACIA AND GHAF TREES
CLIMATE – HOT, ARID
SUMMERS – EXTREMELY HOT, WINDY & DRY (~40°C)
WINTERS – COOL AND SHORT (~23°C)
TOTAL PRECIPITAITON ~150mm

13. DUBAI – GOVERNANCE RULED BY AL MAKTOUM FAMILY SINCE 1833
MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM (VICE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER OF UAE AND MEMBER OF SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE UNION)

14. DUBAI – GOVERNANCE
DUBAI MUNICIPALITY (DM) EST. IN 1954 (RASHID bin SAEED AL MAKTOUM)
PURPOSE – CITY PLANNING, CITIZENSHIP SERVICES AND UPKEEP OF LOCAL FACILITIES

15. DUBAI – GOVERNANCE DM CHAIRED BY HAMDAN BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM
DEPUTY RULER OF DUBAI
IN CHARGE OF ROADS, PLANNING, SURVEY, ENVIORNMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH, FINANCIAL AFFAIRS & SANITAITON AND SEWAGE

16. DUBAI – FUNCTION LARGEST POPULATION OF 7 EMIRATES
2ND LARGEST LAND MASS (ABU DHABI – 1ST)
ABU DHABI & DUBAI HAVE VETO POWER OVER CRITICAL NATIONAL IMPORTANCE OVER OTHER EMIRATES

17. AREA
4,114 KM2
POPUALTION (2010)
2,262,000
DENISTY
408.18/KM2
METRO
3,410,737

19. 59.6%
7.5%

20. DUBAI – FUNCTION EARLIEST TOWN – 1799 DUBAI
DUBAI FROMALLY EST. IN EARLY 19TH CENTRUL BY AL ABU FALASA CLAN OF BANI
1892 UK ASSUMED PROTECTION OF DUBAI (REMAINED UNDER CLAN CONTROL)

21. DUBAI – FUNCTION GEO. LOCATION  IMPORTANT TRADING HUB (PEARL DIVERS)
PEARL INDUSTRY STRONG UNTIL 1930S
WWI & GREAT DEPRESSION DESTROY INDUSTRY  MANY RESIDENTS (JAPAN PRODUCED CULTURED PEARL)
DUBAI  DEPRESSION MANY STARVED & MIGRATED OUT

22. DUBAI – FUNCTION

23. DUBAI – FUNCTION
BEGINNING OF 20TH CENTURY  IMPORTANT PORT

24. DUBAI – FUNCTION

25. DUBAI – FUNCTION

26. DUBAI – FUNCTION 1966 – OIL DISCOVERED
RESULT  MASSIVE INFLUX OF FOREIGN WORKERS (POP. OF DUBAI BY 300%)
MODERN DUBAI  1971 AFTER UK LEFT UAE
1979 FREE TRADE ZONE BUILT AROUND THE JEBEL ALI PORT (FOREIGN COMPANIES UNRESTRICTED IMPORT OF LABOUR AND EXPORT CAPITAL)

27. DUBAI – FUNCTION TODAY  GLOBAL CITY (29th – 2.32) BUSINESS HUB
ECONOMY WAS DRIVEN BY OIL  MODEL OF BUSINESS (LIKE THE WEST) & WHAT DRIVES THE ECONOMY
MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME  TOURISM, REAL ESTAE & FINANCIAL SERVICES