Rethinking Dubai with The Loop
A 93-kilometre highway for cyclists and pedestrians aims to encourage the emirate's more than 3 million residents to move away from car use.
According to Baharash Bagherian -the CEO of Urb, the architectural firm that launched the proposal- The Loop will make Dubai the most connected city in the world by travelling on foot or by bicycle.
An urban future which however requires the transformation of the existing road networks to create 15-minute-city style neighbourhoods. A substantial paradigm shift for a city built for cars, with the goal of getting 80 per cent of people to travel daily by bicycle.
The project, which promises to become the world’s first active mobility infrastructure, is also accompanied by many parks, green areas and spaces for people’s well-being. Utopia, or a new benchmark for car-centric cities?
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