The expanding Dubai coastline

[jaws]

Thread title changed. No teaser titles outside of the Friday Afternoon Club please.

You underestimated the effect of 50-degree weather on the brain...

http://www.thedubaiwaterfront.com/

From wikipedia:
The Dubai Waterfront will extend Dubai's coastline by 820 kilometers, twelve times the length of its current coastline. [3] It will consist of 440 square kilometers of water and land developments, an area seven times the size of Manhattan, New York in the United States.

What is Manhattan going to do to compete with that? How is it evolving into the 21st century? According to brilliant mayor Michael Bloomberg, it will welcome more traffic congestion because traffic is good business.

Just to give you an idea of the enormous scale of the project:

[Chet]

There is a GREAT Discovery Channel (or one of those channels) documentary on the Dubai coastal expansions. Fascinating stuff.

[Reductionist]

All that money for what is essentially gilded suburban sprawl..

What a waste of resources.

[jaws]

All that money for what is essentially gilded suburban sprawl..

What a waste of resources.

Suburban sprawl could use a little gild.

[jordanb]

I would be interested in seeing the environmental impact studies about this.

Oh, wait...