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020			_a9781409408222
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100	1		_aRamos, Stephen J. _957094
245	1	0	_aDubai amplified : _bthe engineering of a port geography _cStephen J. Ramos
260			_aSurrey, England : _bAshgate Pub., _cc2010.
300			_ax, 200 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aDesign and the built environment series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aCover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Infrastructure, Port Cities, Development; 2 Blueprint; 3 Boom; 4 Jebel Ali; 5 Borrowing, Replication, Amplification; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
520			_aFollowing the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations. Infrastructure investment became a central part of the region's nation-building initiatives and fueled strong competition. Without its neighbours' oil fields, infrastructure and territorial development became particularly vital to Dubai. 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. Dubai's rapid series of infrastructural projects culminated in the Jebel Ali Port, Industrial Area, and Free Zone, which marked a definitive "before and after" point. The book shows how Jebel Ali also became the template for subsequent developments, Dubai World Holdings Company's international aspirations, and the agencies that manage and regulate Dubai's large-scale infrastructural projects today. Dubai Amplified highlights the cycle of typological borrowing, prototypical replication, and scalar amplification, specifically in Dubai's infrastructure projects, to best describe its general territorial development. While infrastructure is traditionally understood as the elemental "hardware" that undergirds urban development, the book concludes by arguing that the definition should be expanded in this case as more of a set of objects, networks, and services that cities can selectively borrow, replicate, and amplify. -- Publisher description.
650		0	_aHarbors _zUnited Arab Emirates _zDubayy (Emirate) _957095
650		0	_aInfrastructure (Economics) _zUnited Arab Emirates _zDubayy (Emirate) _957096
856			_uhttps://uowd.box.com/s/cgbjrg4crw6zxsfsh2ukhi29j62u1r2j _zLocation Map
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