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> Sounds like he's looking for weak points in the infrastructure in 
> order to create new holes into which tourists can stare...

Why lok in New York?

My find for today:

“Fifty years from now, New York will be con­sidered the economic and 
cultural capital of the previous century, filled with quaint arti­facts 
of another time and places to visit for the sake of nostalgia, but not 
the center of world culture—somewhat like how we think of Paris today 
compared to 100 years ago. Federal immi­gration restrictions, the 
religious police, and the protection of large corporations from foreign 
competition will have cut off our biggest sources of wealth—invention 
and innovation—and his­toric preservation will have saved the unique 
character of neighborhoods and conserved innu­merable buildings but 
killed the spirit that made the city the greatest of its time.

The megacity of Dubai, one of the seven fed­eral states of the United 
Arab Emirates, will be the new economic and cultural capital of the 
world, spanning its neighboring emirates of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and 
beyond in one urbanized mass, rich in the biggest source of renewable 
energy—sunlight—a pioneer in sustainability and new technology, and 
conveniently located within easy travel distance of a population of more 
than two billion in the Middle East, Europe, India, and Africa. In the 
six years since the Twin Towers fell, a thousand skyscrapers have been 
rising on the Arabian Gulf.”

Metropolis, November 2007, /Beyond the Spectacle/, Stephen Zacks, 
Current trends in new architectural building in Dubai. The photos of 
skyscrapers, including the 160+ story Burj Dubai, make Ghery look like 
grade school. $310 billion in construction under way. My step-son’s 
company Gensler (he is a VP there) was mentioned several times 
throughout the magazine.

Seems they have a shortage of architects.

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