Sadly, with all the development/improvement/entertainment in Abu Dhabi and all the hype and marketing for the city, the city does not have a single public library. There used to be only one at the Cultural Foundation, but even that was in a dire state before the Cultural Foundation closed down for expansion, which will take a few years. With all this development taking place here, there is little care for social or public development.
Development in Abu Dhabi is typical of third world imbalanced development: high rise towers pop up in shabby dirty areas among shabby low rise buildings and blackened pavements, without any concern for the lack of parking spaces and public areas and manities; nothing public gets cleaned or maintained except in the very ‘exposed’ or touristically important areas like the Cornishe and Yas and other important areas. All this is typical of third world unbalanced development of a few select privitised areas like the real estate.
