Concept Caching: Dubai, UAE
August 21, 2010 Edited by Sarah Goggin
Filed under Human Geography, World Regional Geography
From our Concept Caching image cache that hopes to promote student spatial awareness by relating specific features on the Earth’s surface with their visual character and GPS coordinates. Through the site photographs and GPS coordinates demonstrate core concepts in geography. Images are “cached” for viewing by core concept and by region. Images are certainly useful for introducing visual content to students in all Geography classes.
- Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, is the center for global business in the Middle East region.
This image submitted by Harm de Blij provides a local backdrop for understanding the development of global economic and financial networks in the Middle East region. Dubai emerged as a world center for business along with the region’s boom in oil. Today, an entire sector of global finance is governed by Islamic institutions, centered in places like Dubai, as mentioned in the post Geography Directions: Islamic Finance.
