The sand castle
By: a production of Lightsource Film Productions for Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Norsk filmfond V/Bodil Kold Ravnkleve, NRK, DR, SVT, ESTV, Fond for lyd og bilde, Midnorsk Filmsenter, Norsk Filmutvikling ; director, Eirin Gj©ırv ; producers, Arne Dahr, Finn McAlinden
Contributors: Sanders, Jay O., 1953-; Haspel, Adrienne; Molavi, Afshin; Lightsource Film Productions; Educational Broadcasting Corporation; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Series: ECO 420 (NU course); ECO 602 (NU course); MGT 430 (NU course); MGT 602 (NU course); MGT 630 (NU course); MGT 680(NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Cities and towns; Architecture; Urbanization
Other titles: Sand castle :; Building a city in the desert of Ras al-Khaimah; Wide angle (Television program)
Description: The Issue: Once an outpost for pirates and the pearl trade, the oil-rich United Arab Emirates is working fervently to reinvent itself on a global scale. Comprised of seven family-run mini-states, and strategically centered between the traditional powers of the West and the rising stars of the East, the Emirates is a fast-growing international trading hub. Drawing more tourists than India or Egypt, investors, and about 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies to its tax-free desert landscape, the Emirates are gaining a reputation as an oasis of economic success amidst a region scathed by conflict and political instability. Though some of the emirates have enough oil to sustain their economies in the near-term, Ras al-Khaimah, the northern-most emirate, is not so blessed. So, inspired by its flourishing sister-state Dubai, Ras-al-Khaimah has come up with a plan to diversify its investments and build itself into global significance by commissioning world-renowned architects to invent a city on the sand dunes. The Film: WIDE ANGLE travels to the royal headquarters of the United Arab Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah as HH Sheikh Saud solicits top European architects to carry out his grandiose dream of a new capital city in the middle of his desert kingdom. The documentary follows a Norwegian architectural firm as it makes its bid to design the capital's master plan, immersing viewers inside an unfolding drama in which agents of East and West struggle to arrive at an architectural vision both worlds can embrace -- and one that will ultimately fulfill a Sheikh's bold dreams.
Notes: Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Wide Angle on July 24, 2007.

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Narrator, Jay O. Sanders ; editors, Torkel Gj©ırv, Adrienne Haspel.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: 1. A city in the desert; title: 2. Bidding for the master plan; title: 3. The icon buildingy; title: 4. The final handshake; title: 5. Interview with Afshin Molavi.