Dubai Marina is one of the most audacious feats of urban planning in modern history — a fully artificial canal city carved out of the desert and completed in roughly a decade. Stretching nearly four kilometres along a man-made waterway, it was conceived in the early 2000s as a high-density residential district and has since grown into one of the most densely packed skyscraper corridors on the planet. The numbers are staggering: over 200 towers, a resident population pushing 55,000, and a waterfront that somehow manages to feel both theatrical and lived-in.
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