Dubai amplified:
Ramos, Stephen J.
Dubai amplified: the engineering of a port geography. Stephen J. Ramos - London Routledge 2016 - xi, 200p. - Design and the Built Environment Series. .
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.
9781138253391
PL
387.1095357 / RAM-D
Dubai amplified: the engineering of a port geography. Stephen J. Ramos - London Routledge 2016 - xi, 200p. - Design and the Built Environment Series. .
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.
9781138253391
PL
387.1095357 / RAM-D