Anyone driving down Emirates Road in Dubai can’t fail to have noticed big T Rex dinosaur posters roaring out at you. That is City of Arabia, one of the many new developments in the area.

It boasts what will be a huge mall – and you could question whether Dubai needs a shopping mall so big that it will take an estimated 20 hours to walk and have 6,000 stores to tempt you from your cash.

The Dhs2bn project will have 8,000 abodes for 150,000 residents, and for those with money to burn – but not quite in the super rich league – that includes just 14 townhouses costing between Dhs8m and Dhs10m each. There will also be 32 towers.

Attached to the mall is an animatronics dinosaur theme park where visitors really can walk with dinosaurs. A monorail with 15 stops will shuttle people around the city, which is scheduled for phased completion between 2009 and 2011.

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