Dark Side of the moon
One of the guys I work with moonlights in Dubhai as a consultant. He just got back, his business in a shambles, and says the economic crunch is hitting the place hard, he says it's already well on its way to becoming a ghost town.
The drop in oil prices and the sudden loss of wealthy people coming there to play is undermining the economy, which was already leveraged to the hilt.
It's going to make a lovely ruin, visible from space.