Know who was Katsuhiko Takahashi ? who convert Abu Dhabi in to world class city.
Dr. Katsuhiko Takahashi had prepared such a master plan for this city, on the basis of which today it is ranked among the best cities to live in in the world.
- Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one of the seven emirates, was once a village of fishermen.
- After the discovery of petroleum in 1958, it developed rapidly and was redesigned in the 1960s by Japanese architect Katsuhiko Takahashi under the supervision of Sheikh Zayed.
- Takahashi is a citizen of Japan and received his master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning in New York.
- He worked for the development of Abu Dhabi for almost four decades.
