{"id":16948,"date":"2015-09-06T00:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T07:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/dubais-aladdin-city-is-coming-next-year"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:14","slug":"dubais-aladdin-city-is-coming-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/dubais-aladdin-city-is-coming-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Dubai\u2019s \u2018Aladdin City\u2019 is coming next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dubais-aladdin-city-is-coming-next-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dubai has given the green light to yet another outrageous building project \u2014 a 4,000-acre complex of towers inspired by characters from Arabian Nights, including Aladdin and Sinbad the Sailor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAladdin City\u201d will feature six towers, some designed to resemble Aladdin\u2019s magic lamp, linked by air-conditioned bridges with moving walkways (magic carpets?).<\/p>\n<p>Construction will begin next year, and although the total cost has yet to be revealed, Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, told the Future of Dubai website that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofdubai.com\/2015\/02\/dubais-aladdin-city-to-soon-become.html#.VOHPFDGsV8E\" rel=\"nofollow\">it had the funds to finance the project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dubais-aladdin-city-coming-next-year-2015-2?utm_content=buffer81e1d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai has given the green light to yet another outrageous building project \u2014 a 4,000-acre complex of towers inspired by characters from Arabian Nights, including Aladdin and Sinbad the Sailor. \u201cAladdin City\u201d will feature six towers, some designed to resemble Aladdin\u2019s magic lamp, linked by air-conditioned bridges with moving walkways (magic carpets?). Construction will begin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69622,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948\/revisions\/69622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}