There will be no variables here, just billionaire-backed certainties, aided by the stunning good fortune that this vision is shared by such far-sighted companies as Etisalat, Etihad Airways, Abu Dhabi Bank and others.
Accurate. And the references to JG Ballard are spot on, City's football does feel like a hugely expensive freeway smashing through the suburbs, it's all concrete and thousand-metre curves, attractive in the way of lifeless starchitecture or a Pharaoh's tomb—or the Burj Khalifa now I think of it, another product of slave labour.
