Monday, February 16, 2009

The City of the Future 4: Dubai

The biggest speculative real estate boom ever. (Market Study?We don't need a market study!) Environmentally, socially and economically unsustainable. Now, if you read the media reports, becoming a ghost town. Thousands of cars abandoned in parking garages and at the airport as those able to leave get out. The spector of debtors prison for some who can't get out. 90 per cent of population are foreigners. Lots of really bad architecture. Some good, but not much - but that is typical everywhere.

How does this become a real city, with all the diversity and life that define a city of this scale?




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