Lyons-Dubai City

[Tiassa]

Source: BLDGblog
Link: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/lyons-dubai.html
Title: "Lyons-Dubai", by Geoff Manaugh
Date: January 15, 2008

This is excessive to the point of jaw-dropping. I mean, we Americans can waste money, but this, really, is nothing short of astounding:

"The Arab emirate of Dubai will build a replica of Lyons," we read, "under a $685M deal signed with the French city last week." This brings up the interesting question of whether an entire city can franchise itself.

The resulting metropolis will be called Lyons-Dubai City, and it "will cover an area of about 700 acres, roughly the size of the Latin Quarter of Paris, and will contain the university, a hotel school, a film library, subsidiaries of Lyon museums and a football training center run by Olympique Lyonnais."

(Manaugh)

Part of me says, "Hey, this is really cool". Another part of me finds it disturbing for political reasons. (I can think of a few places where people could benefit tremendously if the folks in the United Arab Emirates would just build them a city.)

Nonetheless, this should be something of a challenge. I'm sure we'll hear something about it from National Geographic in the future.

 

[kmguru]

Well, Las Vegas has Paris and New York....why why not Dubai?

 

[draqon]

yeah...Dubai is getting it all...the weapons, the deals, the business...soon they will be in space and by than it will be too late.

 

[kmguru]

yeah...Dubai is getting it all...the weapons, the deals, the business...soon they will be in space and by than it will be too late.

Too late for what? May be Muslims will finally be proud and stop trying to kill the rest of us!

 

[draqon]

Too late for what? May be Muslims will finally be proud and stop trying to kill the rest of us!

nah Koran isnt a strict book, it can be bent however they want it to be bent. Shariat laws of United States...or better the Shariat United American Defenders of Islamic Revolution or what used to be USA