Mike Looks At The Map Episode 06

Dubai has the tallest skyline in the world, and its Burj Khalifa is the tallest manmade structure ever made, period. But how is it as a city? It turns out, it's a lot more like a big suburb than a tightlypacked city, and its layout looks more like a closet organizer than a place designed for people to live in! Here, I take a look at a city that's had to basically wing it as it's expanded rapidly in the past 20 years, and look at a couple of different ways that it's trying to deal with its sudden popularity.

Animations by David Beach.