Simply..a bird's eye view....

..or more likely a satellite view, of Dubai (it's from Google Earth). I was struck by the graphic quality of it - it looks like a fantastical creation by Paul Klee, or Joan Miro. And then I remembered that it would have begun as an idea in someone's imagination then as a  drawing on paper or computer screen - I wonder how the artist/architect feels when he sees it on Google Earth!

Thanks to Julia for the link of 40 aerial views from around the world.