By the 16th century these forms were of little importance compared with dower at common law, or subject to local customs under which dower might extend to a quarter, a half, or even the whole of the land.
Masdar City (Arabic: ÙØ¯ÙÙØ© ÙØµØ¯Ø± â, MadÄ«nat Maá¹£dar) is a planned city project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. Its core is being built by Masdar, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, with the majority of seed capital provided by the Government of Abu Dhabi.
Though the first phase of the project  the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology  was completed in the fall of 2010 and opened to students, it's still easy to wonder whether clean-tech companies and expats will be drawn to Masdar, and whether the sustainable city will ever be able to sustain itself.