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Solution 186-195: Dubai Democracy

Author(s): Niermann, Ingo

Pages: 128

Year: 2010

Publisher: Sternberg Press

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Solution-186-195-Democracy-Ingo-Niermann/dp/193410517…

ISBN: 1934105171

Abstract: Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, author Ingo Niermann -- a relentlessly creative artist whose tongue is firmly jammed into his cheek -- confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable. In the fifth book in the Solution series, Niermann sees Dubai, a sparsely populated piece of desert, become specialized as housing the global center for treating diabetes, called Sugar World. And the Gulf state will be Kumbaya-style universal, too, offering non-confrontational public spaces where both a state of total advertising and compulsive kindness, or what he calls a ''personal humaneness account,'' co-exist.

Category: Non-Fiction

Location: Arnhem

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