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Sat 09 Sep 2009Man's last great folly
ENVIRONMENT: Dubai: The Story of the World’s Fastest CityBy Jim Krane Atlantic, 344pp. £17.99 DUBAI, WROTE French architect Patrick Bouchain, is “probably the very last great folly humanity will be able to afford”.
Intrigued by his verdict, I went to see it for myself in May 2007 and wrote a piece describing Dubai – then in the grip of a building boom even more incandescent than our own – as the world capital of unsustainable development.
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