Wednesday, March 25, 2009
More Dubai Doomsayers
Poor Dubai! For a long time, it has gotten more than its share of international press -- and wanted it! But lately, the news has taken a negative turn. Here's Econmist.com blogging on an article in the Guardian from Britain with the headline Look on my works, ye Dubai-watcher . Here in Amman at the Columbia University Symposium, I just heard that the Dubai Dubai Lagoon has been shelved. Ozymandias, indeed.
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"The presumption of building a five-minute city to vie with Paris or New York by copying the coloured shapes is stupid, dangerous and wrong" I don't see any danger in that. I think Shelley is making fun of all the things happening in Dubai if you read his “Ozymandias”. What's wrong with having too many projects at the same time? come on we're in the 21st century! people had reach the moon and there are some hotel projects there too.
It is might happen everywhere to full down after the successing in economic.
Dubai can learn from what happened and do their best to correct it.
They can do it fast but this time with more studying.
Indeed, poor Dubai. I hope things get better economically. Calling Dubai a "five-minute city," that's just sad. There's nothing wrong with having an ambitious leader who wants to take his country to the next level. Hopefully things WILL get better, and we'll prove the whole world wrong. and I agree with Salma AlBraiki's comment too.
Well we can’t ignore that Dubai did a great work and they worked hard to be one of the important cities worldwide. But, this situation can’t last forever and in every thing there is up and down. Maybe the things that affecting Dubai now are resulted from the very rapid growth. Because, the development that happened in Dubai could take several decades or longer in somewhere else.
However, Dubai has very smart leaders which I think could handle any bad situation.
i think what happened for Dubai its all about successful. and it's failure is part of success because they learn from it and resolve it as fast as they can and ypu can see that from upcoming projects. others are just gelouse about how dubai just reached that all in a small period time comparing to paris or london.
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