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Originally Posted by wheel
Construction work on the world's first zero-carbon city housing 50,000 people in a car-free environment will begin in the oil-rich Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi next month, the developers said on Monday. ....
I honestly don't mean to be prejuduced or anything,,,, -but most of the time when I hear of some spectacular new planned development in the UAE, I always think of Petra--a spectacular effort built at enormous cost, but one that was dependent upon a volatile economy, and that was ultimately unsustainable.

Much of the stuff there is so extravagant, it bears the hallmarks of people with so much money falling out of their 4$$holes that they literally don't know what to do with it.
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