TY - BOOK ID - 11332263 TI - Dubai amplified : the engineering of a port geography PY - 2010 SN - 1409408221 9786612892288 140940823X 1282892282 1315578247 131714760X 1138253391 1317147618 9781409408239 9781282892286 9781315578248 9781409408222 9781409408239 9781317147596 9781317147602 9781138253391 PB - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., DB - UniCat KW - Harbors -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Infrastructure (Economics) -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Infrastructure, Port. KW - Harbors KW - Infrastructure (Economics) KW - Business & Economics KW - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East KW - Transportation Economics KW - Middle East KW - History & Archaeology KW - Capital, Social (Economics) KW - Economic infrastructure KW - Social capital (Economics) KW - Social infrastructure KW - Social overhead capital KW - Harbours KW - Ports KW - Seaports KW - Economic development KW - Human settlements KW - Public goods KW - Public works KW - Capital KW - Channels (Hydraulic engineering) KW - Hydraulic structures KW - Terminals (Transportation) KW - Anchorages (Harbors) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11332263 AB - A detailed examination of the increasingly ambitious developments and infrastructure programmes realized in Dubai since the 1970's. This book provides an invaluable understanding 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 into a set of objects, networks and services that cities can replicate and amplify. ER -