TY - GEN AU - Ramos, Stephen J. TI - Dubai amplified: the engineering of a port geography SN - 9781138253391 U1 - 387.1095357 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - PL N1 - 1. Infrastructure, port cities, development -- 2. Blueprint -- 3. Boom -- 4. Jebel Ali -- 5. Borrowing, replication, amplification N2 - 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 ER -