Gulf cont'd.

"Special edition of Volume, a project by Archis + AMO + C-Lab + Pink Tank + NAi"--Cover.

"Produced under the exclusive sponsorship of the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council"--Page 4 of cover.

Editorial team: AMO: Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Iyad Alsaka; Archis: Arjen Oosterman, Lilet Breddels; NAi: Ole Bouman; Pink Tank: Mitra Khoubrou, Daniel Camara; editor: Todd Reisz; text editor: Timothy Moore.

Includes bibliographical references.

Stresstest / Rem Koolhaas -- Introduction. The process : united? ; City ranks ; City reports ; Global visibility ; Yearly investment breakdowns -- Crisis and crises. Introduction / Daniel Camara and Mitra Khoubrou ; The global crisis and the Gulf's money souks / Matein Khalid ; Diversification, clustering, and risk in Dubai / Stephen Ramos ; Dubai world, its roots, and its creations / Sandra Bsat ; Jumeirah Gardens and the urban checklist / Todd Reisz ; Dubai world and Nakheel / compiled by Sandra Bsat, Daniel Camara and Mitra Khoubrou ; Dubai : crisis and reinvention / compiled by Sandra Bsat, Daniel Camara and Mitra Khoubrou ; The final plan ; Dubai bashing : a list of headlines and quotations chronicling a year of Dubai bashing ; Dubai bashing article generator / Rory Hyde ; Business Bay, Dubai, 2009 / Todd Reisz ; A tall emblem structure for Dubai / Aleksandr Bierig ; Cityscape 2009 reviews / Todd Reisz ; The strength of Dubai : Khalid al Malik / interview by Rem Koolhaas and Todd Reisz ; Planning for growth / H.E. Falah al Ahbabi ; Abu Dhabi crisis and reinvention / compiled by Sandra Bsat, Daniel Camara and Mitra Khoubrou ; What's next in the city of dream buildings? / Bradley Hope ; Abu Dhabi : a forward tale of two cities that could only be one / Mishaal al Gergawi ; Power networks : Dubai ; Power networks : Abu Dhabi ; Modern Gulf cities / Shafeeq Ghabra ; Institutional real estate : investing in the GCC / Faisal Khan and Anuscha Ahmed ; Time to reflect / Hamda al Kindi ; Ajman in 2009 / Daniel Camara and Mitra Khoubrou ; From increasing supply to managing demand : resourceful efforts in the United Arab Emirates / Kevin Mitchell ; Abu Dhabi : paving the way to sustainability? / Volker Soppelsa and Neil Mallen ; The paradox of sustainability and Abu Dhabi / Jim Held ; Tackling the paradox : homegrown solutions to sustainability / Salem K. Al Qassimi ; Kuwait's future prospects / Yasser Mahgoub ; Welcome to Saudi Arabia ; Riyadh timeline / Natalie al Shami ; Riyadh ready? : the megacity of 2020 / Joumana al Jabri ; Makkah's crest ; The Hajj is a myriad of details : Bodo Rasch / interview by Reda Sijiny ; Master plan for pilgrim's accommodations, Mina (Muna) / Kayoko Ota ; Jeddah between crisis and hope / Ziad Aazam ; Qatar 2009 : weathering the crisis / Daniel Camara and Mitra Khoubrou ; Qatar headlines 2009.

Consultants. Introduction / Todd Reisz ; At your service : ten steps to becoming a successful urban consultant / Reinier de Graaf ; Measuring the presence of consultants / Rory Hyde ; Selling Adelaide / Rory Hyde ; Abu Dhabi's French Enlightenment : French professionals and institutions coming to Abu Dhabi / compiled by Natalie al Shami and Jonathan Hanahan ; From extreme skateboarding to stalled globalization : the changing rhetoric of McKinsey in the Gulf, before and after the crisis / Rory Hyde ; KSA : open for business? : a report from the Construction Week Saudi Arabia Conference / Reda Sijiny ; Two or false : Vancouver replicants / Timothy Moore ; Will the last consultant please turn on the light? : a meeting with Andrés Duany in Al Ain, UAE / Todd Reisz -- Vision. Introduction / Ole Bouman ; Regulate / Sachin Kerur and Philip Corfield-Smith ; Closing the gap / Rami el Samahy and Kelly Hutzell ; Bahrain : another vision / Digby Lidstone ; Petals and atolls : Atkins makes islands : Rob Ruse / interviewed by Nicholas Kothari ; Sheikh Zayed : the urbanized Arab Emirates / Sultan Sooud Al Qassimi ; National housing : an opportunity for change / X-Architects ; The people's icon? : urban rail and socio-spatial cohesion in Dubai / Tabitha Decker ; Abu Dhabi's renewed urbanism : Larry Beasley / interviewed by Rem Koolhaas ; The Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council : update : Michael White / interviewed by Rem Koolhaas and Todd Reisz ; The modern Majlis : public participatory planning in Shaham and Bahia / Lia Gudaitis ; Capital District plan 2030 : Jody Andrews / interviewed by Mitra Khoubrou ; The Abu Dhabi investment forum / Lucy Bullivant ; A cultural island : Abu Dhabi imports cultural institutions to build upon tradition / Negar Azimi ; Yas Island / Katrin Greiling ; Shrink to fit / C-Lab ; Doing by learning : Abu Dhabi opens the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology : Georgeta Vidican / interviewed by Natalie Al Shami ; KEO : international consultants advise : Uwe Nienstedt / interviewed by Holley Chant ; Masdar 2009 headlines / Sandra Bsat ; Masdar takes a pulse / Yasmine Abbas ; The national spatial strategy for Saudi Arabia / Mohamed Abdel Rahman and Saleh AlHathloul ; The doxiadis effect : a master plan for Riyadh / Joyce Hsiang ; A vision for Riyadh : Arriyadh Development Authority's ongoing work for Riyadh / Joumana al Jabri and Todd Reisz ; Cities solve problems ; City of knowledge : Redwan Zaouk / interviewed by Joumana al Jabri, Todd Reisz, Reda Sijiny ; City of industry : Mohammed Ahmed Al-Attas, Zahir Bin Hassan, Fadi Farouk Jabri / interviewed by Reda Sijiny ; The social responsibility in city making : linking Jazan to Malaysia / Suetlin Lo ; Thoughts on growth / AbulAziz Aldukheil ; Planned development projects in Makkah ; Sporting cities / Marisa Mazria Katz ; Express integration : the return of the GCC rail project / Tabitha Decker ; Promises on a friendship causeway : from Qatar to Bahrain / Nicholas Kothari ; Going nuclear in the Gulf / Jonathan Hanahan ; A demand for water / Jonathan Hanahan ; Educational entrepreneurship / Bimal Mendis.

About. The Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) -- Cohabitation. Introduction / Arjen Oosterman ; Line 1 / Madeha Al Ajroush -- Pregnant women walk : Madeha Al-Ajroush / interview by Joumana al Jabri and Todd Reisz ; The Abu Dhabi waterfront / Alamira Reem Al Ayedrous ; The boundaries of Sharjah / Sean S. Anderson ; Wrestling for the masses ; Skateboarding in Riyadh / Laith Sadeldin [and others] ; If it's not green it will become invisible : a sociological account of a color in Bahrain / Gareth Doherty ; Global village / Katrin Greiling ; Burj Khalifa is downtown ; Many questions, no answers : riots in Khobar, Saudi Arabia / Ahmed al Omran ; Legal protests in Bahrain / Nicholas Kothari ; Human rights watch in Bahrain : Faisal Fulad / interviewed by Mitra Khoubrou ; Makkah preparing for the Hajj / Bernard Zand ; Ithmaar for the people : affordable housing in Bahrain : Mohammed Khalil Al Sayed / interviewed by Sheyma Buali ; Color correction : Bahrain's rainbow houses / Nicholas Kothari ; Bachelor ban : a form of gentrification of Muharraq, Bahrain / Sheyma Buali ; A case for urban change : revitalization in Manama, Bahrain / Ahmed Al-Dailami ; KSA on message : Muna Abu-Sulayman / interviewed by Joyce Hsiang ; Infinite possibilities : Riyadh's vast cultural projects / Carol Fleming Al-Ajroush ; Creation of a mortgage culture : Philip Thigpen and Mike Scott / interviewed by Joumana al Jabri and Todd Reisz ; Saudization update / Fiona Hill ; The bidoon and the city : a historical account of the politics of exclusion in Kuwait / Farah Al-Nakib ; New generation expats : fear and belonging / Alia al Sabi ; Exodus to the Gulf from God's own country : travails of a people doomed to Vaga-bondage / Shajahan Madampat ; 26 (or so) museums / Brian Salter ; Abu Dhabi art / Reem Al Ghaith ; Kamp Ka Champ / Katrin Greiling ; Towards a lasting richness : finding space for culture in Kuwait / Tim Koehn ; Makeshift mosques ; After the party : culture in Dubai / Antonia Carver ; Controlled experiment : the opening of KAUST / John Gravois ; The American invasion of science : Jeddah, Saudi Arabia / Mai al Jadawi ; While KAUST takes the spotlight, Princess Nora University is for the masses : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / Joumana al Jabri ; Saudi Arabia's modernity / Mashary al Naim ; Preserving the past / Rashad Faraj ; To be buried in Bahrain / Mohamed Duaij Al Khalifa ; Making Souk Waqif : Doha, Qatar : Mohamad Ali Abdullah / interview by Todd Reisz ; The flattening of Riyadh / Joumana Al Jabri ; Abu Dhabi's empty quarter / Katrin Greiling ; Khawater (thoughts) : the Shugairi Show / Sandra Bsat.

Export Gulf. Introduction / Todd Reisz ; Gulf model export / Johnathan Hanahan ; Qatari Diar : from expansion to entanglement / Rory Hyde ; Too littoral : Gulf export to Lebanon and the case of Cedar Island / Rami Abou-Khalil ; Dubai, copied and pasted : a Photoshop campaign in Turkey / Emre Altürk ; Gulfworld : corporate profiles and networks of Gulf cities / Ronald Wall ; Food security / Jonathan Hanahan ; The gulfanization of Egypt / Khaled Adham and Mostafa Hossam ; Immigration and experts ; Gulf real estate portfolio in Egypt ; Cairo's boulevard of dreams : a visit to Emaar ; From the American dream to the Gulf dream ; Report from Kerala / Todd Reisz ; Gulf houses of Kerala / Todd Reisz ; Three Kerala interviews / interviewed by Todd Reisz and Sahil Latheef ; Pay it back : measuring remittances / Sandra Bsat ; The UK and the UAD : best frienemies 2009 / Rory Hyde ; On a flight ; New silk road : the fate of the old continent / Jiang Jun ; GCC and China / Sandra Bsat ; Faithfully Qatari with a global resonance / Hady Amr and Noha Aboueldahab ; Building bridges of culture : Qatar Museums Authority / Roger Mandle ; The UAE Pavilion : Lamees Hamdan / interviewed by Mitra Khoubrou ; The Gulf in the media / Hugh Miles -- Appendix. Monthlies update January -- December 2009 / compiled by Daniel Camara and Mitra Khoubrou -- Al Manakh network map -- Biographies.