Is Dubai The Centre Of The World?

“there is, at a rough estimate, about $100bn worth of projects either underway or planned for the near future. That is a numbing figure, ungraspable. It is the equivalent of every single dollar invested in the United States from abroad last year; almost twice the foreign investment in China.”

It’s interesting to ask *why?*.

To prove that the arabs can do western society better at its apparent cultural interface? I find the description at the end of the article – the sandwich – both telling and prophetic. Telling because it seems that there is very little men build like this without oppressing someone to do it. Prophetic because its establishing a potential pattern for societies to follow.

I’m not really a thinker on things urban, but I’m fairly sure I don’t want to visit the place – this kind of stuff both draws me in and repells me..