Friday, October 24, 2008

Urban Planning, Money and some totally insane shite going on in Dubai.

Read this article, which is really mostly pictures, and tells how Dubai is transforming itself from a quite Emirate into a fookin' crazy place where (presumably) urban planner and bankers smoke random shite together and decide to build nutty things and actually finance them!

The last line of the article is quoted herein:
  • "There are more construction workers in Dubai than there are actual citizens."

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON OVER THERE?


Yeah, my question exactly! The people involved in the actual construction of these magnificent monuments to Mammon ( I love alliteration) are an unfortunate lot. They work under harsh conditions. This article and this Human Rights Watch essay details what these migrant workers go through.


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