Dubai 2040: The Sustainable Urban Masterplan

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum the Vice President of the United Arab Emirates has created a master plan for sustainable urban development across Dubai over the next 2 decades.

It mainly focuses on enhancing people’s happiness and quality of life as well as reinforcing Dubai as a global destination for visitors over the next 20 years and more.

The plan has a strategic structural layout, integrating all urban development master plans in the emirate and aligned it with Dubai’s strategic economic priorities and the needs of the future of the region.

Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan is the seventh development plan for the emirate since the 1960s.

Incredibly between 1960 and 2020, the population of Dubai has multiplied 80 times from 40,000 in 1960 to 3.3 million while the urban and built area of the emirate increased 170-fold from around 3 square km.

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture and a lively nightlife scene. Burj Khalifa, an 830m-tall tower, dominates the skyscraper-filled skyline. At its foot lies Dubai Fountain, with jets and lights choreographed to music. On artificial islands just offshore is Atlantis, The Palm, a resort with water and marine-animal parks