Every outskirt could be a center in a Global City. Moreover, the “center-periphery” model has been reshaped. However, the “colony” is not appearing as such. Metropolis means dislocation/displacement: by establishing colonies and conquering newer territories.
In this “world,” Dubai is both City-state and Global-City, but Global/World Cities look like Metropolis rather than the ancient Polis. Eventually, World Cities display themselves as an urban landscape of consumption. These same notions have characterized current developments of the “State-nation.” Nowadays, the newer Cities-state - the Global Cities- are imposing and showing themselves as the peak of a “future” which is the “present” of now (and in the western tales of the “historical improvement” although it occurs mainly in the Eastern side of the World: for instance Dubai). Many modern ideas as “boundary” and “people” (ethnical or cultural identities based) appear currently overtaken in reality. Globalization’s dynamics and subjectivities materially push over traditional limits. One imagines it just like a volumetric sphere, covered by vertical and horizontal lines, which are indefinitely traceable (like in a quiet space, as the desert). The notion of Globus would seem to indicate a more “neutral” term. That sense relies upon acting subjectivities and their works: the human praxis and opus. Then, for whom modern Dubai is built? In the historical mainstream of Western Thought, Mundus revealed a given purpose: a narration aimed for the making of a certain perceptible and communicable sense. Are these “places” the new World/Global Cities? Indeed, they get into the global Arena, which is the race of capitalistic competitiveness. Transnational companies require “places” venues for gathering their production and consumption needs to sustain and promote their business. Is the “Natural” becoming, more and more, a fake “Artificial”? Sense or Nonsense? Buildings and structures can accumulate and concentrate productive networks of social times of life in a massive area of available space (i.e., the Tabula rasa desert of the UAE). Among the most iconic, those buildings and structures, more than any others, are representing the dynamics of general global capitalism (implementing themselves in a particular “place” at the same time). To highlights its suitability for being a real Global/World City, the Emirate fosters hyper-modernist urban aesthetics and majestic architecture through the agglomeration of urban events such as Skyscrapers, Shopping Malls, huge residential developments, and massive infrastructures.
The Global/World City of Dubai appears as a reified stream of perceptions and representations (“Spectacle,” in Guy Debord’s words).
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