What happens in Dubai to the art of building is bound up with what happens to the city as a place to live and work in if it ceases to be a place in which people can exist in reasonable contentment, it will be unprofitable to discuss its architectural achievements. As urban surface transportation becomes increasingly longer, the challenge is to develop communities that are self-contained, where work and play become intertwined. As technology continues to progress, these communities can develop independent of the upper income group stratas, where Courbousier’s vision of the “vertical garden city” is instead replaced by something less chaotic.