(CNN)In 2006, plans were announced for the world"s first carbon-neutral city.
The project -- helmed by British architecture firm Foster + Partners, was to be located in the desert of one of the world"s most oil-dependent nations, the United Arab Emirates.
About 80 percent of the people I met there were day workers.
So these were Pakistani, Indian workers, and people from the Phillippines. I spent a lot of time with them.
What I was trying to do was, not construct a story -- because there is no beginning, there is no end -- but to try and create a project which shows what this city is, without judging too much.
It"s a project that could create controversy, and I was not there for that at all, I really wanted to show this to people who were curious to see what a city of the future could look like.
This article has had additional contributions by Sophia Chalmer.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/25/arts/city-of-possibilities-etienne-malapert/index.html
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