Why do Arab cities look so god damn futuristic?

Why do Arab cities look so god damn futuristic?

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Sheikhs fund property developers, who in turn hire the world's best architects

>buildings with some leds
>futuristic
Are you from a farm or something

To attract tourists

SHEIK TO THE FUTURE!

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it might be futuristic but pretty plastic. doent have an atmospheric landscape, street, or a mixture of old and modern things

because most of the buildings are new you dumb shit.

>world's best architects
Top kek, arabs are tacky as fuck

Because they have no culture other then beheading and thus do not need conform to any cultural standards

Also helps that they can do whatever the fuck they want without anyone stopping them

The better question is: when will they actuallly start making these youtube.com/watch?v=HHtyxTWTQrI

that doesnt look futuristic; it looks fake.

>brasil


Eh, you can't really tell from one picture.
Are you a foreign English teacher or are you a native Jap?
lmao stfu

Easy to build wondrous things when you use forced/slave labor.

ive seen many pictures of those and blue prints like "this is what the future of an arab city is" even tough most of them are about dubai.

in other words it look like an amusement park. its more of decorated ones like las vegas than a futuristic one. this is my honest opinion so no offence.

This meme again. I doubt they forced millions of Pakis and Indians to come over and work.

S. Asian workers know what they're getting themselves into and they sign up to escape their poo in the loo country.
You could argue that they are not paid very well, but that's nothing like claiming that they were forced to do it and that they were paid nothing.

Furthermore, if we wanna play this game, you could say that anyone who purchases clothing made in foreign sweat-shops (which is a considerable chunk of the clothing industry) is promoting slavery. For all we know, your wardrobe could consist of a bunch of forced-labor shirts and pants and sweaters.

It's the progressivism and tolerance that Swedes are trying to import

Fair opinion, I suppose. Good job.

Oil money, and lack of recent local architectural style .

>Furthermore, if we wanna play this game, you could say that anyone who purchases clothing made in foreign sweat-shops (which is a considerable chunk of the clothing industry) is promoting slavery.

I do indeed say that, comrade.

So you concede that most people in general promote slavery (even if they are unwittingly doing so)?

>tfw it reminds me of spec ops the line

Modern Arab architecture is universally recognized as exceedingly garish and all around awful. None of it has any context beyond wealth or beauty beyond modernity taken to it safest yet grandest scale. The result is vomit inducing

You have to consider the fact that these cities are literally in their 20's.
The fact that Dubai, Kuwait City, Doha, etc were able to turn from a desert into booming metropolises in a matter of 20 or 30 years is impressive.
You can't compare these cities to London or Paris or Osaka because they didn't have hundreds of years to develop.

>UNIVERSALLY recognized as EXCEEDINGLY GARISH and all around AWFUL

Just because you're good at cobbling up a few buzzwords doesn't mean that it isn't apparent that you're talking out your ass, Zhang.

This isn't English class.

Because there is nothing old, everything is new. There was nothing there 30 years ago.

some things are so overbearingly tacky that it's charming, but this is just embarrassing. it resembles a wallpaper.

The buildings look cool but there's no real culture behind it all. Most cities have histories dating back hundreds of years and have stories and feel lived in. Arab cities just look tacky. It's like building a house completely out of diamond blocks in minecraft.

every building is new?

>61kb

Are these the sorts of places where you can't drink booze? I never want to visit.

>arabs
>futuristic
kek

Genuinely ugly. Luckily not too many cities over here look like that.

Those really aren't big words, how's life in the trailer park

I said BUZZWORDS not big words, snowniggering chink.

oh yeah, well, you're dumb

From what I remember, Dubai allows for alcohol consumption in certain areas, but I'm not sure about the others.
y...y...you too.....

i get you point. to begin with the definition of "futuristic" depends on each individual's aesthetic. for me, like, a dazzling and clean city that is full of skyscrapers doesnt always mean futuristic. those advanced districts planned in line with a "futuristic city design" by government end up in a plastic looking city regardless of country. same goes for japan.

is that a fucking joke

fucking middle east shinra

This is a false premise however, no one signs up for conditions that are so bad people die, right now the focus is on Qatar because of their clusterfuck World Cup, but it's pretty much the same story all over the Gulf... The Arabs are doing it worng, not all of it as say their education cities, but they're basically woprking in a build it and they'll come basis not realizing their cities are unsustainable. What are you going to do with huge populations far from any agricultural productive region, dependant on desalination plants for water and without no way to produce wealth? It's not industrial parks that will compete with high tech giants like Japan, they're not going to significantly steal away financial services from London or New York, they're not going to surpass Western universities as the top centers for education and research, even with all the resources that have been funelled into Al Jazeera the network has only managed marginal success as news network, it cannot compete with Egypt and Lebanon in terms of media content because of their ultra strict Islam, and even for broadcasting sporting events it tells you something about the hatred other Arabs have for them that they'd rather watch Israeli transmisions in Hebrew... It's like bringing a house of cards on top of a running engine, they import so many foreign workers as to make up a significant portion of their population (I think it's around 30% for Saudi, but actual majorities for other gulf states) in one of the most politically unstable regions in the world... Once you have large populations hitting something like economic crisis, and once again fucking everything needs be imported, you're going to have some epic shitstorms.

They could have gone for building low population, uber automated sustainable paradises with that amount of money, real futuristic places with working farms taking advantage of solar power, which they have plenty, to produce fresh water...

That actually looks kinda cool.

Doesn't exactly look holy tho...

it actually reminds me of some shitty but impressive area in jrpg games

>arabs blew american skyscrapers away
>arabs and chinese built tons of skyscrapers while americans pussied out
Pax americana is over 2bh

future indeed

to counter the fact they're stuck in the past

Americans don't need to participate in dick-measuring contests to know that they live in the greatest country in the world.

Looks like a desert arena
And kabba is the center of it
And the king watches from the top of the tower

>kinda cool.
if you mean evil then yes, does look like that

How do you guys feel about the Saudis having practically paved over all sites of historic importanc and even torn down Mosques in your holiest cities?

>1776 feet.

the sad thing is, they have eagerly participated dick-measuring contests

>This is a false premise however, no one signs up for conditions that are so bad people die, right now the focus is on Qatar because of their clusterfuck World Cup, but it's pretty much the same story all over the Gulf... The Arabs are doing it worng, not all of it as say their education cities, but they're basically woprking in a build it and they'll come basis not realizing their cities are unsustainable. What are you going to do with huge populations far from any agricultural productive region, dependant on desalination plants for water and without no way to produce wealth? It's not industrial parks that will compete with high tech giants like Japan, they're not going to significantly steal away financial services from London or New York, they're not going to surpass Western universities as the top centers for education and research, even with all the resources that have been funelled into Al Jazeera the network has only managed marginal success as news network, it cannot compete with Egypt and Lebanon in terms of media content because of their ultra strict Islam, and even for broadcasting sporting events it tells you something about the hatred other Arabs

Are you seriously gonna use al Jazeera as your basis for your argument.

Let me just give you some perspective, here.
Barely 20 years ago, the cities that you see in these photos were desert. Now, just a couple decades later, they have the largest mall, tallest buildings, largest gardens, and the busiest airport in the fucking world.

That's right. Dubai -- a city that is a fucking infant -- was able to pull in more people into its airport than Paris, London, NYC, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, etc. (cities that have had much longer periods of time to develop and AREN'T in fucking deserts).

You can type as much word salad as you want, but the truth is that the Gulf Arabs are only gonna go further at this rate.

But they don't need to anymore. There is nobody with a dick that even approaches the length, girth and indeed vascularity of that of the United States of America.
The USSR did at some point, and then they had to measure. And the US obviously came out on top.
But fhe Gulf states are pathetic. They have oil, but absolutely nothing else of value or worth admiration.

t. Saudi student in Burgerland

You realize that they're not allowed to leave, right? Their employers hold onto their passports.

I'm just wondering you're an American overseas on vacation or something or a native Italian kissing our ass

So basically your argument is Dubai has become an airport hub? That's it? How many skyscrappers worth of people does that support? Because it isn't like Dubai has become the most visited city on the planet, is it?

That is just where your oil money goes. The point is: once it run out of oil they will bleed money from all sides. Once they run out of your oil money, it will turn into a desert again.

>I will probably live long enough to make archaeologic search in Dubai.

I'd like to see evidence of that.

And if that's true, then I would say that corporations like Samsung (whose construction branch is a major player in Gulf countries like the UAE) are to blame.
If I recall correctly, Gulf countries have already set up laws and have worked to combat violations regarding the rights of foreign workers.

If a corporation violates those rights, most of the blame should be pointed at the corporation, not the country.

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There are stories of Filipino maids being raped by their employers and forced to carry the baby. I've lived there and I can tell you they treat their labourers like absolute scum. Most of them live in some run-down labour camps in the middle of the desert.

The blame should be pointed at the corporations and the employers of the domestic workers, but the governments are doing fuck-all to stop it.

Except we can't look at evidence because there's no transparency, I mean ffs your governments are more opaque than those in my region of the world... The burden for laws being followed lies on the authorities, not the individuals, corporations will simply do whatever is most profitable and accomodate their customers... Meanwhile how are the oil prices treating you Ahmed?

>an American overseas on vacation
I wish! I'm actually a Norwegian on vacation.

>So basically your argument is Dubai has become an airport hub?
No. My point is that this is just one of the many facets that is testament to the rapid growth of these countries.
Jesus Christ, I can't make a single point without you taking it to the extreme one way or another.
Me: Swiss chocolate is amazing
You: So what you're saying is that Switzerland is a 3rd world shithole only good for producing chocolate and nothing else?
> Because it isn't like Dubai has become the most visited city on the planet, is it?
Nigger, Dubai was a fucking lifeless desert 25 years ago. How can a city go from a desert to the most visited city in the world in under 30 years? It did come pretty close though, and is currently the fasting growing city in terms of annual visitors. If we don't count Bangkok (which is really just an international brothel) then Dubai is the 6th most visited city in the world.
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>That is just where your oil money goes. The point is: once it run out of oil they will bleed money from all sides. Once they run out of your oil money, it will turn into a desert again.

Yeah, another Frog who thinks that all we do with our oil money is make bigger buildings. As if we aren't investing it large-scale.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-01/saudi-arabia-plans-2-trillion-megafund-to-dwarf-all-its-rivals

Keep in mind that at current rates, it'll be AT LEAST another 100-250 years til ""the oil runs out""

>the governments are doing fuck-all to stop it.
You think this is a first world country or something? They are happy to see it happen. They created the context needed to make it happen. They get super cheap labor and the satisfaction of the elites with it. Only white people care about human rights, so tell me why they would lift a finger against it?

What's so futuristic about one gigantic roundabout with no infrastructure planning e.g. sewage systems, sprinkled with gaudy gold?

>oil meme

Most of our oil comes from Canada and the U.S

Norway use oil money like they should. Fuck, I wish I was born in Norway.

Not our and not the Asian one.
Wait... Is that why you support the Saudis?

You really think they don't have sewage? kek
You give them too little credit

Don't pretend like low oil prices aren't decimating the Gulf states.

>As if we aren't investing it large-scale.
>As if WE aren't investing it large-scale.
>WE
Like with the PSG? You don't know shit about investments. You just buy things.

Have you ever been there are anywhere else "modern" in the Middle East? It's literally all Potemkin village level shit.

All those copycats

Yeah if Russia controlled all the oil pipelines into Europe they'd jack up the prices and turn you into slaves

Essentially unlimited money and space to build coupled with slave labor and no regard for impact planning makes it really fucking easy to build quickly. It's not that impressive when you get down to it.

>The blame should be pointed at the corporations and the employers of the domestic workers, but the governments are doing fuck-all to stop it.

It's a gradual process. It will not be stopped overnight, but the governments are beginning to crack down on employers who do that kind of fuckery.
>You think this is a first world country or something? They are happy to see it happen. They created the context needed to make it happen. They get super cheap labor and the satisfaction of the elites with it. Only white people care about human rights, so tell me why they would lift a finger against it

Why would they want it to happen if nearly all of Dubai's revenues come from tourism? Are you dense?
If I paid you money to fix my house and you brought in slaves to do it, does that mean I'm to blame?

Wasn't that fund a part of the restructuring the Saudis are doing because of the oil drop price they started in the first place? There's literally people dying on the streets (eg venezuela) because Saudi Arabia didn't want to loose it's market share.

Leaving that aside I'm actually curious to read what is your plan to generate wealth, you seem to not understand that the fact those cities were fucking desert 25 years ago wasn't because foreign investors all woke up one day thinking they'd make billions constructing in the middle of fucking nowhere. You built those cities with oil money, if the French user is worng as you claim how is it you will generate wealth, I explored several alternatives in my post and discounted them, prove us wrong, what's the plan? How are you going to turn cities in the desert into net wealth generators? Because having a trust fund in some bank won't pay for them at all...

The key difference is that skyscrapers almost never get built here unless they are determined to be economically sustainable. Nearly all skyscrapers in the Middle East and most in China are built without basic economics in mind.

There is not a lot of oil pipelines to Europe. On og them is in Georgia, the others goes in Ukraine and the ones from the middle east are in Syria.

Notice a coincidence?

You're something else, aren't you?
You DO realize that the low oil prices are intentionally created by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members of OPEC to hurt Russia's economy, right?
>You don't know shit about investments. You just buy things.
Yeah, haha. Okay tough guy.

>Why would they want it to happen if nearly all of Dubai's revenues come from tourism?
Tourists don't go on the construction sites. Also, the tourists are either super rich people with a need for rapable maid or shitskins with 0 care for human life.

Georgia- us aligned

Ukraine- Russia fucked over their relation

Syria- destroyed in a civil war to keep European oil free of Russian corruption and enslavement

Dubai's rapid rise in airport traffic is pretty much entirely a function of geography. It's an extremely convenient transfer point for all kinds of flights. The amount of traffic actually that goes through there that actually ends or originates in Dubai is not a large % of traffic.

dont mess witht the fin you ameriturd piece of human garbage

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You're a fucking dipshit. OPEC is not at all united in the strategy and they lost a massive amount of control over oil markets. Don't talk about things you have no understanding of, junior.

>to hurt Russia's economy, right?
In the case of the Saudis, they get mad at ISIS because they turned into a caliphate. This is not why they gave them 2 billions.
Since the only thing ISIS can sell is oil, they reduced the price of the oil.

> he thinks it's not exclusively the Saudis over the objections of pretty much all of the rest of OPEC

>Wasn't that fund a part of the restructuring the Saudis are doing because of the oil drop price they started in the first place? There's literally people dying on the streets (eg venezuela) because Saudi Arabia didn't want to loose it's market share.

So you're telling me people are dying on the streets because of a fund half-way around the world that hasn't even happened yet?
Haha... and here I thought it was because the Venezuelans allowed a communist-socialist regime to take over! How foolish of me!

>Leaving that aside I'm actually curious to read what is your plan to generate wealth, you seem to not understand that the fact those cities were fucking desert 25 years ago wasn't because foreign investors all woke up one day thinking they'd make billions constructing in the middle of fucking nowhere.
Never said that

>You built those cities with oil money
No shit
>how is it you will generate wealth, I explored several alternatives in my post and discounted them, prove us wrong, what's the plan? How are you going to turn cities in the desert into net wealth generators? Because having a trust fund in some bank won't pay for them at all
There's too much to talk about. If you want an answer, look up Mohammad bin Salman. He's the head of the economic/development council of Saudi Arabia.

Oil

Dubai is built on money from Abu Dhabi. Dubai literally required a financial bailout from Abu Dhabi because they fucked themselves financially by building a ton of shit for which there was either never demand in the first place or for which demand cratered.

Middle East cities are tacky as all fuck and they all have so much empty space and gross lifeless desert. Chinese cities are where it's at for futuristic looking cities

Georgia have been recently invaded by the Russians. By coincidence, it happened just after the EU finished building a pipeline from Azerbaidjan.
Ukraine is the one who fucked his relation with Russia and Putin can use this as a reason to fuck up the most needed gas that goes in Germany.
Syria got fucked up for a lot of reasons but Putin want to keep it for only one reason.

>OPEC is not at all united in the strategy and they lost a massive amount of control over oil markets. Don't talk about things you have no understanding of, junior.

This nigger apparently doesn't know what a cartel is. Stfu

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I read the Arab user mentioned tourism, is the people in Asia really that shallow they'll flock to Dubai for what? Shopping malls and theme parks? Cities like London, Paris or New York which are MAJOR tourist hubs do not primarily rely on tourism, these are centers for industry, culture, media... There's plenty of historic value to visit there, there's traditions to be enjoyed in those cities, you can't buy that. Did you see the museum Carlos Slim built in Mexico City? It's basically a noveau rich's pipe dream and while worth a visit not worth a trip, then again Mexico city does have real museums, archaeological sites, world class art, etc.

If I was travelling to the gulf I'd much rather see the small forts and pearl fisheries that are the real history and tradition of that area. If I wanted to just watch skycapers I could go to Tokyo, see more impressive, if not as tall, engineering and also while I'm at it be in a city full of history, tradition, art, museums, etc.

POO IN TRUCK

Don't know about Kuwait, but Dubai looks pretty boring. It's just a giant dildo set in a middle of nowhere and you can't even capture it on cam.

Listen you dumb fucking nigger, pretty much all of the rest of OPEC wanted to cut output to raise prices. The Saudis overruled it. And, even when the Saudis tried to stabilize prices at a higher level than they are now, they failed because of a fundamental shift in the center of gravity in world oil markets.

Go back to the kids table douchenozzle.

Literally 6 years ago. According to this, 30% of sewage was transported by trucks in 2013, and the remaining 70% sewaged out.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai

I'd imagine the 30% figure has dropped in 2016.