![]() ![]() Under Lee Kuan Yew and the People’s Action Party’s leadership, the small island with few natural resources grew into a global leader in oil refining, air travel, and shipping. The former British colony faced severe unemployment, a housing crisis, and political upheaval in the mid-1900s. Like Dubai, Singapore has experienced enormous growth following an era of stagnation. The city today with one of the most recognizable skylines in the world had just a single skyscraper and essentially no infrastructure in 1979. In merely 50 years, Dubai has developed from a backwater trading post into an iconic city and economic powerhouse. ![]() The evenly paved roads belched with the smell of new tarmac, as if a million masons woke up every morning and by hand lay asphalt one grain at a time,” writes Iranian poet Soroosh Shahrivar on the allure of Dubai. Its buildings, like towering pillars, tested the sky’s limit. “The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis.
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