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UAE street gardens Blurring the lines between the private and public realm, these often-untamed street gardens show a side of the country that we rarely see By Charles Lamb The interface between the public space outside and the private world within a property’s boundary, conventionally defined by a wall or fence, provides a demarcation of ‘mine’ and ‘theirs’, imbued with the societal knowledge that crossing the threshold requires certain behaviours and social constructs to be adhered to. But what about the ‘ours’ space,
Complete set-up on the street, Jumeirah, Dubai
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that soft line between the public and the private, where life spills out from the house into the street, and which passers-by can also enjoy, but is not fully part of either environment? In the UAE, such edges outside houses are often appropriated by the residents in many of the older, more organically developed areas of towns and cities regardless of
