Neighborhood Planning

I had my first tennis match last night at the Dubai Country Club. The drive there and back was even more interesting than the match (if you can imagine). While my sense of Dubai neighborhoods so far is that they are very fragmented and isolated from one another (not to mention divided by nationality usually), the club is surrounded by the most extraordinary concentration of truckstops. Long roads filled with trucks, their Indian or Pakistani drivers, and small snack shops and businesses offering basic services. A mini-city of sorts surrounding a mostly British members-only club -- certainly an unusual juxtaposition for this city.