Would you visit Dubai in the best of times?

City Comforts:

All that Arab culture learned in a thousand years about adapting cities to great heat -- high-ceilinged buildings along narrow streets which provide shade and short distances to walk outside — have been forgotten or ignored. Confoundingly, with all of Europe and Asia to learn from, the city's design ignores the goals of the sophisticated tourist — to be able to walk around outside — in favor of antiquated down-market Las Vegas.

City Comforts describes itself as a blog "with a new focus on civilizing the real estate megaprojects of the Middle East, East Asia and even the USA."