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45 Gigapixel Photo of Dubai (gigapan.com)
5 points by bhartzer on Aug 30, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Took me forever to find a person in the streets. You can actually see some people hanging out in one of the Observation decks in the Burj Kalifa.


Very cool, although it looks like one of China's ghost cities. I see construction but no workers. No people on balconies, no people walking about. It's like some kind of apocalyptic mirage. City planners really need to take a closer look at New York. It worked because small consumer shops exist on the ground level and people live and work on the upper levels. As pedestrians walk down the street they have amenities there for them. Contrast that with streets where there is a big building with not street level shops. It adds no value to the community. Very much like the design intentions of the projects in NY. Don't try to mix parks with buildings. Make sense buildings and then make a big public park.




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