The street that time forgot
Photographs of Dubai on August 7, 2011
When people think of Dubai, the first things that usually come to mind are the tallest, the largest or even the smallest. Yet nestled between the superlatives and the pre-fabricated wind towers that remind the city of its humble beginnings, is a street that time forgot.
The cabbage-patched street runs right through the heart of Jumeira 1 and is lined with villas that were once the homes of Dubai’s middle-class families. They now lie abandoned, silently awaiting their rebirth as something more ostentatious. Perhaps another shopping mall.