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Dubai

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The same street in 2003

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2007

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The madness.Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% ofall the world'scranes

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The Dubai Waterfront.

When completed it will become the largest waterfront development in the world

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The Palm Islands in Dubai.New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands.They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from space.

Three of these Palms will be made with the last one being the largest of them all.

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The World Islands.300 artificially created islands in the shape of the world.Each island will have an estimated cost of $25-30 million.

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Hydropolis, the world's firstunderwater hotel.Entirely built in Germany and thenassembled in Dubai, it is scheduled tobe completed by 2009 after manydelays

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The Burj Dubai.Constructionbegan in 2005 and

is expected to becomplete by 2008.At an estimated

height of over 800meters, it willeasily be world's

tallest buildingwhen finished.It will be almost40% taller than thethe current tallestbuilding, the

Yaipei 101.

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This is what downtown Dubai will look like around 2008-2009.More than 140 storiesof the Burj Dubai have already been completed. It is already the worlds tallest man

made structure and it is still not scheduled to be completed for at least anotheryear.

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The Al Burj. This will bethe centerpiece of theDubai Waterfront.Once completed it willtake over the title of thetallest structure in theworld from the BurjDubai.

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Recently it was

announced that thefinal height of thistower will be 1200

meters.That would make it

more than 30%

taller than the BurjDubai and three

times as tall as theEmpire State

Building.This is acity on crack.

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The Burj al Alam, orThe World Tower.Upon completion itwill rank as theworld's highest hotel.

It is expected to befinished by 2009. At480 meters it will onlybe 28 meters shorterthan theTaipei 101.

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Dubai land. Currently, the largest amusement parkcollection in the world is Walt Disney World Resort inOrlando, which is also the largest single-siteemployer in the United states with 58,000 employees.

Dubai land will be twice the size.

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Dubai land will be built on 3 billion square feet (107 miles^2) at anestimated $20 billion price tag. The site will include a purported 45 megaprojects and 200 hundred other smaller projects

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Dubai Sports City. A huge collection of sports arenas located in Dubai land.

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Currently, the

Walt DisneyWorld Resort isthe #1 touristdestination in theworld. Once fullycompleted, Dubai

land will easilytake over that titlesince it isexpected toattract 200,000visitors daily.

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The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings

when finished. It will be home to some of the tallest residential structures in the world. The completedfirst phase of the project is shown. Most of the other high rise buildings will be finished by 2009-2010.

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The Dubai Mall will be the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9

million square feet of shopping and around 1000 stores.It will be completedin 2008.

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Ski Dubai, which is already open, is the largest indoor skiing facility in the world. This is arendered image of another future indoor skiing facility that is being planned.

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The End?

I think not