Futuristic Maldives Creating Wonders

It is always a human wonder, whether life could mean any difference in the future. We draw into the extents of our education and artistic imagination to interpret a futuristic image. It is almost uncanny, on how technologically advanced we have become in the 21st century, easing culture and lifestyle, while changing the visual history. Indeed, the Maldive islands are in-line with the progression as we too will one day say our goodbyes to the island-like villages of the nation.

The Maldives is developing, and it is leaping rapidly as the white sandy roads are mounted with tar-based concrete. Followed by high rising buildings and bridges that lead us to newer cities, the country is facing an infrastructural boom. The rocky paved streets of Male’ City now slowly smoothening to tar-based streets, it connected the neighboring Airport and the reclaimed city Hulhumale’ through its astounding bridge and highway. Development slowly oozes into the atolls with developing link roads in Laam Atoll and Airports rising from the deep lagoons. It is indeed the trailer, to a new visualization of the island nation of the Maldives.

It is the unnatural development that also causes streams of goosebumps to flush the enthusiasm of the Maldivians. While we enjoy the luxury of eased development, we sacrifice the rare aesthetics of the natural geography of the island haven. White sandy streets and large palm trees, lost in the futuristic era of concrete barely surviving in the Indian Ocean. Could there be a way in which the Maldives can experience urban development without its roots at cost? If there was, why are they not implementing it?