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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE 3a.m.15th FEBRUARY2013… standing on the entrance of the airport. Finally its DUBAI time! DUBAI can be explained in some few words such as the skyscrapers, globalised, palm trees and many Indians! Dubai is emerged out of a clean slate, but still the evolution of the city is been tremendous through the time. The way the city is moving towards globalisation, it is amazing. The main purpose of the visit was based on learning about the technology, culture and its impact on architecture. Despite of all the modernisation, globalisation, and the attitude of theirs to make the largest, tallest, smallest and biggest of all the things, THE SHEIKHS have beautifully managed to maintain THE IDENTITY, THE CULTURE AND THE TRADITION of the ARABS. The visits to all the IMPORTANT places of Dubai like BURJ KHALIFA, BURJ AL-ARAB, DUBAI MALL, MALL OF EMIRATES, IBN E BATUTA MALL, DESERT SAFARI, DUBAI MARINA, PALM JUMERAH, IKEA etc and a glance of ABU DHABI because we went to see THE FERRARI WORLD, and SHEIKH ZAID MOSQUE MASDAR CITY made the tour interesting! And at last the experience was breathtaking and surely made us “waaoooww”!!!! Indore visit What is urban design? Urban design, is the process of designing and shaping spaces at a larger scale, to make these areas functional, attractive, and sustainable. It is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric. But all the above definitions were new to us. So for a better understanding of the term, "urban design" a study tour was conducted at Indore’s old city core near "Rajwada" to understand t