Dubai Sci-Fi

[alanajoli]

The more and more I read about Dubai, the more it strikes me as a city straight out of science fiction. The most recent article was this 60 Minutes segment hosted by Yahoo news. The Sheik decided that they should double the coastline of the city, and so they built an island that looks kinda like a spider, so that each of the arms could have beach-front condos on it.














I don't know if the look they're going for over there is the futuristic, or whether that's just what's happening, but Dubai looks like where it's at for science-fiction styled architecture and man-made islands.

Edited to add a photo that appeared in the NYTimes a few weeks ago, but that I couldn't find online. Luckily, I'd saved it. :)

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[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

It looks like a really mind-boggling place to visit--and a great setting for some urban fantasy, maybe. Whenever you have a juxtaposition of cultures, it seems like it's ripe for epic fiction to happen in the midst of it all.

Did you notice how the cultural atmosphere was in regards to women? When I was in Turkey this year I noticed how much more open women were in public than six years ago--far more liberal than it had been in 2001 (as far as apparel was concerned, at the very least).