This page from NASA's Earth Observatory is very cool. If you go to the "The Ubanization of Dubai" you can click through the dates at the bottom of the picture and see how Dubai has changed. It's worth clicking on the 'play', 'show all', and 'view large' buttons at the lower right corner of the picture.
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This urbanization is amazing. Is this change quite successful in Dubai? sky.high123@hotmail.com
Success can be measured in many ways. Dubai has pretty much everything that expats and locals want - nice malls, bars and clubs, concerts by Rod Stewart and others, fine restaurants. However, the dominant culture has changed. Only 10% of the population is local. Life in Dubai is not the way more conservative Emiratis want it. The local economy depends on pandering to Western expats. Is that success? If I were Emirati, I wouldn't be comfortable. It's all kind of complicated.
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