Book Launch: Planning the Future of Abu Dhabi | Larry Beasley and Michael White

Join us on May 14th, at our 50 Water Street showroom to celebrate Larry Beasley and Michael White's new book, Planning the Future of Abu Dhabi: A Canadian-Emirati Collaboration for Sustainable Urbanism. Light refreshments will be served at 5:00 pm, and a deep-dive discussion will start at 6 pm. The presentation will be Live Streamed.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase throughout the evening,​ and a book signing will take place before the talk.

Planning the Future of Abu Dhabi tells the inside story of a team of Canadians who helped transform one of the world's quintessential boom towns into a model of sustainable, livable urbanism. Co-editors Larry Beasley, a Member of the Order of Canada, former co-chief planner of Vancouver, and founding principal of Beasley and Associates, and Michael White, associate vice-president of Campus and Community Planning at UBC, led that five-year initiative on the ground in Abu Dhabi. The result is a compelling account of visionary planning in action, at an extraordinary scale, in one of the world's most dynamic cities.