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These images are from a two-week trip to Dubai in November 2008, just as the effects of the economic recession were being fully recognized. While the Burj Khalifa was still under construction, there were other projects that appeared to have been abandoned due to the financial difficulties. The scale of some of the projects was stunning, cranes everywhere, destroying a lot of desert to create a city.