Dubai: How not to build a city

Dubai: How not to build a city

A cross between Vegas and Mississauga, Dubai is in danger of becoming a ruin-in-waiting

DUBAI – If this really is a city and not some sheikh's mad idea of what a metropolis should be, it's a city despite itself.

Its vast wealth notwithstanding, the things that make Dubai liveable are those that happened when the planners weren't looking. But life will out, even in a city built by oil-fuelled hubris.