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Thiago de Andrade · May 11th, 2008

They just have a few more years of oil left, so they are preparing their future as turistic, comercial, business point or center in the middle-east, and therefore, not looking forward to building a new arabian urban culture, in my humble opinion.
So, the real-estate business is being showcased everywhere, attracting tourists and masses of workers from all over with a very low aesthetic quality of urban and architectural spaces, it´s a kind of second-hand wannabe-avan-garde architecture. Let´s see how long it will hold and stand as a new geopolitical center for the region.
But one thing is right, many other countries in the region don´t seem to care if the oil is going to end, as long as their sheiks or kings still sit on top of billions of petrodollars, so the Emirates are aware of that risk.

May 11th, 2008	#3 (permalink)
Thiago de Andrade Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Brasília Age: 28 Posts: 132 Name: Thiago de Andrade	Re: Dubai... They just have a few more years of oil left, so they are preparing their future as turistic, comercial, business point or center in the middle-east, and therefore, not looking forward to building a new arabian urban culture, in my humble opinion. So, the real-estate business is being showcased everywhere, attracting tourists and masses of workers from all over with a very low aesthetic quality of urban and architectural spaces, it´s a kind of second-hand wannabe-avan-garde architecture. Let´s see how long it will hold and stand as a new geopolitical center for the region. But one thing is right, many other countries in the region don´t seem to care if the oil is going to end, as long as their sheiks or kings still sit on top of billions of petrodollars, so the Emirates are aware of that risk.