A City Reaching for the Sky, Without the Help of Oil – Bloomberg

Think Middle East economies and you think oil. Yet Dubai—the most populated of the United Arab Emirates and home to the world’s tallest building—gets less than 1 percent of its gross domestic product from fossil fuels. In less than 50 years, it has morphed from a small Gulf port into a state-of-the-art city, home to mostly foreigners.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2018-04-16/a-city-reaching-for-the-sky-without-the-help-of-oil