Dubai Amplified The Engineering of a Port Geography |
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| Author:
| Ramos, Stephen J. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4094-0822-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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Examining in detail the series of increasingly ambitious developments and infrastructure programmes which have been realised in Dubai since the 1970s, this book not only provides an invaluable understanding to the unique style of Dubai urbanism, but by highlighting the cycle of typological borrowing, prototypical replication, and scalar amplification, it also argues that the definition of 'infrastructure' in this type of territorial development should be expanded as more of a set of...
More DescriptionExamining in detail the series of increasingly ambitious developments and infrastructure programmes which have been realised in Dubai since the 1970s, this book not only provides an invaluable understanding to the unique style of Dubai urbanism, but by highlighting the cycle of typological borrowing, prototypical replication, and scalar amplification, it also argues that the definition of 'infrastructure' in this type of territorial development should be expanded as more of a set of objects, networks, and services that cities can selectively borrow, replicate, and amplify.