According to Hit and Run, the World project in Dubai is coming to an end. I wrote about this before. It's the project where they created a bunch of islands that would form archipelagos in the shape of Earth's land masses. It sounds like they ran into both engineering and financial problems. Only one island was really developed.
These things happen. The world is littered with the failed follies of the rich. Dubai made a bet that they could get out from under the inevitable oil crash by making their city a destination of it's own right. Kind of an Arabian Las Vegas, if you will. It sounds like the global recession has put a serious dent in that goal.
Still, it was a cool idea. I hope that some lessons were learned here that can be used for something else in the future.
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