Dubai amplified: the engineering of a port geography. Stephen J. Ramos

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Ramos, Stephen J

Language: English Series: Design and the Built Environment SeriesPublication details: Routledge 2016 LondonDescription: xi, 200pISBN:

9781138253391

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DDC classification:

387.1095357 RAM-D

Contents:

1. Infrastructure, port cities, development -- 2. Blueprint -- 3. Boom -- 4. Jebel Ali -- 5. Borrowing, replication, amplification.

Summary: This book provides a unique and detailed understanding of Dubai urbanism by demonstrating that cumulative programmatic intensification and scalar amplification of its large-scale infrastructural components guided its metropolitan growth and generated a territorial organization logic that outstripped the predictive capacity of traditional Western master planning.

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1. Infrastructure, port cities, development --
2. Blueprint --
3. Boom --
4. Jebel Ali --
5. Borrowing, replication, amplification.

This book provides a unique and detailed understanding of Dubai urbanism by demonstrating that cumulative programmatic intensification and scalar amplification of its large-scale infrastructural components guided its metropolitan growth and generated a territorial organization logic that outstripped the predictive capacity of traditional Western master planning.

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