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Creating a much-needed park in Dubai Marina

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Urban exploration in Dubai Marina reveals a side of the city that’s often overlooked, where infrastructure, water, and everyday life intersect. Within Emaar’s carefully planned framework, there is a real opportunity to re-imagine vacant or underused plots as temporary green spaces that cool the microclimate, invite people to pause, and reconnect residents with nature.

 

Even modest interventions such as shaded planting, walkable lawns, and pocket parks can transform leftover land into meaningful public realms, turning gaps in the urban fabric into breathing spaces that add social value, wellbeing, and a more human rhythm to the Marina’s high-rise skyline.

The new ZADS Desert & Cycle Hub, Al Qudra, Dubai

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Urban exploration at the new ZADS Desert & Cycle Hub in Al Qudra, Dubai is about discovering moments of pause within the vast desert landscape. Set along a popular cycling route, the hub becomes more than a stop point, it is a place to rest, refuel, and reconnect with the environment and with others on the same journey.

 

The blend of open desert, movement, and simple amenities creates a relaxed social node, where cyclists, walkers, and visitors share shade, coffee, and conversation, reinforcing how even light-touch interventions can shape meaningful destinations in unexpected places.

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