Dubai Urbanization

[TnEEn]

fantastic vid sank you

wtf man?

[euroaaRON1]

i like dubai but after the recession it pretty much turned into a ghost town. lots of construction projects left abandoned. that and alot of people are finding out that dubai was built with a slave society that is kept separate from the rich people

[Incunabulist]

@NooleV

Don't move here now , i moved here on the 18th December , although for quite important and sudden reasons ( on the 16th of December I didn't know I was moving)

The crisis isn't as bad as the Uk makes out though compared to other economies .

[Bunny5O1]

اللهم صلي على محمد

[Adamstube]

wa 3la alihi wa salam!

[mechanicalengineer3]

Abu Dhabi has the oil not Dubai...Dubai is the business center of UAE.

[9a3eedi]

Idiots. Dubai has NO OIL. They ran out. Most of their money comes from tourism and business in general.

[Matttttttttttt12]

yeh.. thats true... yu can get the info if yu jus search the web.... most of their income is from tourism and trade...

[misakisheraz]

Modern day atlantis waiting for happen , one earth quack or sudden rise in water and man made island will be under water just like that - wast of money ...just place for rich and famous to relax , no place for normal ppl

[sega31098]

Who knows? Dubai could make a dome around the islands.  Or they could make stuff. They could make barriers. Or canals.

[sega31098]

Dubai's buildings have overtook the world's tallest free-standing structure, the world's tallest standing structure and the world's (soon-to-be) longest automated type of metro system. What's next?

[spiralreplicator]

Whats next ? me moving there!

[sega31098]

*silence*

[mrlongley]

very depressing

[NtlgntNrg]

Depressing in general - urbanization all over the world or is it so depressing because of arabs?

[joesperlingusa]

dubai is so badass (CHECK OUT VIDS)

[creten69]

its a nasty ass place of slavery and greedy oil kunts,its like america.I guess muzzies and chrities are eggzactly the same. ;~^

[KamikazeLive]

Wow Dubai never ceases to amaze me.. first the largest Mall, now a man made island?? whats next?

[LoNinjaSword23]

The worlds tallest buidling? The worlds biggest indoor skiing centre?

[KamikazeLive]

Damn, where are they getting all this money??lol

[sega31098]

Tourism and oil.

[Tha89Kid]

most of the money comes from OIL.....i will buy a hybrid :)

[maaitah]

oil makes less than 15% of their national income.

[Tha89Kid]

lol..most of the money come from oil and then you have tourism and businesses!

[maaitah]

actually i was wrong, The oil sector's contribution to Dubai's GDP has fallen from 5.4% in 2005 to 5.1% last year, according to a report by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. so it is even less than 15% my friend.

Real Estate and Construction (22.6%),Trade (16%), imports and exports (15%) and financial services (11%) are the largest contributors to Dubai's economy.

[Tha89Kid]

UEA,Qatar,SA these are kings of oil!especially Qatar which has the highest GDP in the world,its amazing for such a country but its oil money.Dubai revenue mainly comes from oil-real estate and exports(they exports alot of stuff,cars etc behind japan).but they have been hit hard by recession and the economy there is worse..construction stopped.its amazing how they build towers blocking vitamin D......trying to out-do USA.

[maaitah]

Qatar has a lot of gas, not so much for oil.

Saudi Arabia has a lot of oil.

UAE doesn't have that much of oil.

u can check the internet yourself and see real figures.

[Matttttttttttt12]

perfectly.... Qatar has a lot of natural gas... SA oil and UAE: Abu dhabi has oil and natural gas reserves yet to be utilised and in dubai the money comes form tourism, trade and real estate.... which overshadows their dependence on petroleum for their GDP...

[Matttttttttttt12]

tryin to out-do...?? i think it has succeeded.... and the americans are helpin them with big construction projects... it has outdone USA

[Incunabulist]

@KamikazeLive

there are loads of world records here , i was in dubai mall 2 days ago ( the worlds biggest mall ) and there was a big guinness book of records event going on cause this guy was doing the longest consecutive keepy uppies with a tennis ball or something.

But yeah , other records i know of

tallest structure

tallest free standing structure

highest mosque

highest swimming pool

highest vertical pumping of concrete

fastest elevator

[rewoner]

i hate dubai....dubai is bankupt...thx god

and all these records...whre there arabas are so proud of it. was built with european and american now how - architects from europe and slaves from india...nothing arabic in there....because they have no skills.

dubai is a soules city and i hope the desert get this place back....FUCK DUBAI!!!!

[Incunabulist]

Yeah I get what you mean. It wears down on you after a while.

Although there are still some remnants of arabic culture , the old gold souk and parts of the creek still have an air of arabia about them.

But other than that it is very western : /

[NtlgntNrg]

When it comes to urbanization in America, we all say - cool. But when it comes to another country we all say - stupid. Same thing we do when it comes to human race. It's like, everything non-white or western is bad and stupid.

[Quy4life]

looks like cancer has spread through out the body.

[kidcrunk]

I have relatives in Dubai. They say that the building has stopped completely due to the financial freeze. Buildings are standing half constructed. I was there in 2006. It's all built by slaves out of China, Malaysia and India.

[kashman92]

are serious

[Incunabulist]

@kidcrunk

[Shallows87]

so sad

[skankcitytitty]

The chosen few royals from the UAE have so much money they don't know what to do with it.

Sad really they are really mixed up especially the younger ones into weird sex,drugs,etc when they come to europe or the states and act all conservative in front of their families.

The love of money becomes an insatiable obsession

[BlackBerryHELPER]

what do you do with that thing? is it a building? a dock?

[me2dumb4college]

it's a housing project

[KansasCityKing1962]

DAMN DUBAI!!!!!!!!!!!

[GilbertsonDerick]

They build all of this retarded shit to show the world their status, while at the same time they are fully aware of the fact that they wouldn't be able to build this shit without our hard-earned money! They should have invested in more economic supervisors. Lewlzzzzz!

[squeehunter]

Most of Dubai gets its money from things other than oil.

[rickyoung0]

You are a perfect spokesperson for RETARDED AMERICA. Your completely uneducated and adolescent comment is invalid, incorrect, and just flat out stupid. I guarantee that you are one of those idiots that watches ten minutes of CNN and thinks they have PhD in world politics. Sad Sad.... Go to school... Get and Education.. and Get a Life..By the way, how many multi-billion dollar projects have you done this year? It is ethno-narcissistic people like you that force the developing world to hate us.

[GilbertsonDerick]

Upset much? LOL

[rickyoung0]

By the way all of his Economic Supervisors told him not to do it because it would lose money and the Prince ignored him and did it anyway. It turns out the Prince was right. Almost the entire island sold years before it was even close to being finished.. But I guess you already knew that being the genious that you are. GILBERTSONDERICK IS FLAT OUT WRONG

[hivebrain]

Looks like money doesn't buy you a sense of aesthetics.

[vwguyaz87]

The thing is that like 80% of their population consists of construction crews, good luck finding someone to live there.

[BilsonM]

im pretty sure that most of the construction workers are foreign..i dont think people in dubai do manual labor.

[galaxyWin]

maybe its time for me to get out of the health care field, but does this remind anyone else of cancer spreading?

[scythe515]

to quote Agent Smith " Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet."

[Shyssirixus]

I love that scene.

[LorcaAdonai]

OPEC is going down faster than the USA

[LorenzKamo]

That wont sustain for long

[bralen24]

What a dump.

[amoeboy]

dude seriously the united states (and other more industrialized nations) need to STOP the lower nations (excuse my terminology) from industrializing like we did, and suggest to them better, cleaner, more profitable ways to do so. people need to learn from each others mistakes on EVERY level, and letting some country thats WAY behind us do exactly what we did, and destroy the environment in a process that is reversible but hard to change from is just stupid. we might as well have been dogs then

[insaneclown2103]

You can spout your ideas one way or the other, but you seriously have to deal with the fact that even if people agree with you (as i do) that humanity as a whole will not change easily. Humans, although the most intelligent and evolved of all beings on this planet, are the most idiotic also, we have no sense of self-preservation...

[hexachristian]

The best sign of our idiocy: attempting to proselytize on youtube.

[jimmypagek26]

i totally agree

[fasho619]

Why dont you just reverse modernize yourself to help the planet? start off by getting rid of your car, your house, and your computer... Everyone deserves what we have in the US just as much as we do... you expect those people in a DEVELOPING country to just sit around and live in poverty?! FUCK NO...

[updown454]

Who cares about them. And everyone says technology just hurts us so lets spair them.

[joetylerdale]

Sim City lives......

[Shmilfke]

Dubai was built by America and Israel.

[nqaud]

lmao proof?

[The3Losers]

wow the place got really developed in the time it took to build that lol

[jloiterer]

You better believe dubai will be a lot less fun if korea starts tossing nukes around

[JAKETHESNAKE1590]

Korea is all talk, they just want attention, If anything theyll just attack S.Korea, Hopefully any of this doesnt trigger a WWIII.

[DoneDairyQueen]

o.o

[Danilocaparros]

looks like Jetsons city..

[Wizard101Official]

Where is the second one?

[jessekarate08]

you said it

[GerrardtheGrimmNo1]

one of the coolest places on earth. total eye candy. and just astounding.

[Tman2295]

is that the palm jumerah?

[The3Losers]

i think so lol

[danthebard]

they were making a cock but the head architect caught on

[daniyal08]

LMAO at all the western haters

[BiteHunter]

lmao2 hahaha

[daberko120ch]

@daniyal08 I am kind of thinking of it the other way around, Dubai cannot afford this stuff and are going into debt yet they keep expanding this site. They put so much money into this building site and soon they will collapse because they are retards who never learned how to make good decisions :/ That's the truth, they are going into serious debt because of this just to make a 'cool beach vacation'

[SgtRevan]

@daberko120ch Doubt it will collapse. $80 billion isn't really a lot considering other debts and the fact that they accomplished so much and only are in the hole 80 mil. Oh, and they aren't retards. Look at Emirates Airline, it has made a profit every year of its existence. Compare that to an American airline and still tell me the Arabs are the retards.

[silentvoiceeee]

Its amazing the way dubai has come up in such a short span of time and in doing so the way it provided jobs and livelihood to millions coming from slums in India to mansions in Zurich.

Great city with great vision.

[tindremene]

google "dubai slaves".

[KERKEL2012]

Dubai is the city of the Future...

[melvyd2]

Yes it is. It's where the captains of industry will make their new homes after they finish robbing & then destroy the United States. General Electirc & others are already there. Our bailout money is probably being put to good use in Dubai.

[CynthiaSwallows]

LAME

[reg373]

These reforms are long overdue. And the mega-banks have to be stabilized, they are too interconnected in the financial system we are all dependent on -- found a cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth

[textualhealing]

They don't even have a working sewage system.

[TheHierarch]

This video shouldn't be from a satellite view, but the human-eye level view.

Then you will see something magnificent.

[Taurus702B]

Dubai is so artificial. Just like Vegas. I live in Vegas and I don't get why people go to Las Vegas, its not that fun here. I would go to places that have culture and nature like Hawaii, Italy, or Japan or something interesting. I don't know its just my opinion.

[freidenfelt81]

i agree with you completely. I have NEVER wanted to go to Vegas but its all my friends and girl want to plan. I'd love a REAL adventure to Thailand, or Japan, the Norwegian Islands, I live in California 45 minutes from Reno, thats enough.

[mraznhustla]

yeah, where they will cut your damn gringo guts out and sell it on the black market yay!!!!!!!

[freidenfelt81]

i hear gringo guts go great with a bit of a french onion dip, laid out on a bed of mexican bullshit.

[littleindia70]

I lived in Dubai. I was a middle class person there and life there has a lot of culture . There are Indian neighborhoods and many other south Asian and east Asian neighborhoods bustling with culture. I am assuming your perception is what is great must be without culture. Diversity brings great culture and nature. I doubt if you went to japan it would be for nature but instead a crowded city or even in italy.

[Taurus702B]

Yeah but Dubai will never be like New York City with all of its history and landmarks that date back to the great depression and later.

[justin55723]

the great depression wasn't so long ago...

[SamHj08]

There's a bigger artificial island just like this that's already built on it's northwest side.

[DoubleTeamFilms]

dubai is too damn hot to have any fun. las vegas is in a desert in the and it gets really hot. this place is in the fuking middle east where the desert is hell. i give dubai 20 years before it fails because oil won't be needed anymore with all the energy efficient stuff the world is building.

[Wa7dawiah]

love Dubai =)

don't care about wat u guyz think about dubai ..

[oAdam27o]

amazing

[Danilocaparros]

whats going to happen when finish the money from oil?

[littleindia70]

Dubai runs on tourism not oil. It is 97% tourism and 3% oil which is better than most countries.

[emollamanturtle]

they're artificial islands. no ones harming the precious water.

[jflg1]

fucking richs

[dseer13]

im happy for the emirates.

[r32adt3db]

Yeah. It's great to see them destroying the ocean and building shit without even a report on the environmental impact of the surrounding areas. Awesome. Hooray for Emirates.

[linebeck222]

Oh no! they placed a building on less than two percent of the ocean! We're doomed! Fucking tree hugging moron.

[lalokullo]

i dont care if they are rich, kill the ocean or whatever, but i would kill to live in one of those islands. its sad it is so far from america :/

[Jerrycosyweegirl]

Couldn't possibly take yourself away from the center of civilization ;)

[shadowace421]

if you were the richest man on earth could you actually make your own continent?? like one the size of Texas? and then establish yourself as a separate country??

[jaynek23]

wise man builds his house upon the rocks, but a foolish man builds his house upon the sand, then rains came in..

[JuanRefan]

ever heard of CEMENT..

[shadowace421]

you twit....

[JuanRefan]

you lil pussy

[shadowace421]

lol, do you even know what a twit is?? sir your such a twit.

[othelonetigero]

Do they really rely on Tourists ??? Am a normal guy, and i never thought about going to Dubai. This is really bad for them............

[Bizazah]

they got so much money so it wouldn't matter if you ever went there or not !

[bgdbaby]

Well, once they won't have oil anymore .. they should live on something .. why not tourism?

[chefawkes]

built by indentured laborers

[QueerRicky]

that is not true. where did you hear that? I believe that to be racist... to say that when there is no evidence for such a thing.

[chefawkes]

don't be defensive. its sad yet so true its been confirmed EVERYWHERE. do a simple google search and hundreds of pages will come up talking about. they lure south asians from their home with promises of excellent wages and good jobs, but when they come over, they are forced to work 14 hour shifts in the brutal desert sun with less than half the pay they were promised. if they quit, they have to pay for the cost of airfare which they dont have. there's a lot more to say but i don't have time

[Fo0dStamps]

dosent Micheal jackson touch children in this country ?

[Sleeace]

This is like Sim City, cool!

[Michaelas11]

eh cool

[PanzerMeyer23]

Dubai is also undergoing just about the worst credit crisis in the history of humanity, and since the entire city is built on credit, all of these wonderful, glorious structures are going unfinished and crumbling. So hooray for economic masturbation!

[GERdogge1988]

wow...its like in america with there houses ;)

[dtulifat]

Crisis is bad (everywhere!) but nothing is "crumbling". Some projects are put to a halt, which is not abnormal, but other than that it's life as usual.

And I live in Dubai btw ;)

[xephyr1000]

You're sure that's suppose to be a "palm tree", right? Looks a bit like "male ego" gone extreme! Hey, it's a patriarchal social structure. Wouldn't put it past them to just "call" it something else for public/media consumption in order to cleverly put forth what they really want. Nothing say "Explosive Male POWER" like that! Hate my comment if you want, but just look at the image!

[thecomposer1962]

Looks like a fat lady bending over in the bath tub.

kissies !

[Sammy78girl]

dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days nw uv startd readn this dnt stp this is so scary snd ths ovr 2 5 vids in 143 mins when ur done press f6 nd ur crush's name wll appear on the screen n big letters ths is so scary cuz it actully wrks

[rbsimmon]

"To expand the possibilities for beachfront tourist development, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, undertook a massive engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands along its Persian Gulf coastline."

[Leeroy49]

a timeline would be cool ... great pictures

[italstal07]

war profits spent in dubai!! what a country, as this country is in a depression war profiteers are spending in dubai..

[dtulifat]

Dubai is a city, not a country.

[LooseLatitude]

He was referring to the U.S. when he said country.

[Enigmatx]

The UAE's economy is based on foreign investments as opposed to exports of oil. Oil only accounts for 30% of the country's wealth. 70% of it comes from foreign investors, tourism and real estate. Did you know that 1/4th of the world's cranes are in Dubai?

[totorofusion]

I saw numbers a few years ago pointing to oil being < 5% of its GDP

[hapygoyumyumII]

not that we will know but can't wait till it falls.

[DanJr27]

Well, gee the answer is pretty obvious, there are just too darn many people.

Modern medicine and clean drinking water are to blame.

Of course, neither you nor I are part of the excess, it's those damned other people who think they have some god-given right to be here, when we both know they don't.

[gabrealist]

Human expansion is scary!!!

[calladuz]

Too bad their economy is falling very fast like the boom up... oh well, I was kinda getting sick of their uber-rich tourist industry it seems like you cant do anything there without having millions in the bank

[DDFcash]

that all happened in like 2 years too, its gonna fail though, if I wanna go to a vacation spot I'll choose somewhere like the carribean etc with beaches and jungle and palm trees not the edge of a desert thats right across the water from Iraq

[blackzj]

can you believe that they are building those islands with our money from the oil.

fucking unbeliveble!

[zenpher]

No it's not oil money, it's just mass foreign investment. Everyone rushed in because real estate was booming there.

[italstal07]

ya the foreign investment was the chinese who practically own us, and the war profiteers..

[humananus]

just like the days of command and conquer

[MajinFrahma]

yay oil!!!

[tomking91]

It's alright, I'm always awake at 12 anyway, so I will be there ready to strike like a ninja! :P

[undiesinabunch]

That will make a very nice ghost town if the World Bank does what they usually do.

[FIREBUNEE]

lol ...... so true... relying on tourism in this economy.

[achampag]

kinda short and too fast

[psychodelicdragon]

covering up everything! sad!!

[hypoluxai0i0]

Covering what? Sand?

[letitROCK5four]

lol seriously. if you go there and just drive around theres NOTHING...theyre not covering up anything

[xaviermarez]

poopdick