Dubai Amplified : The Engineering of a Port Geography.
Title:
Dubai Amplified : The Engineering of a Port Geography.
Author:
Ramos, Stephen J.
ISBN:
9781409408239
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (213 pages)
Series:
Design and the Built Environment
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Globalization and the City -- Process and Artifact -- Dubai -- Social and Environmental Considerations -- "Raising Uniformity into Monumentality" -- Chapter Structure -- Living the Future and Creating the Past -- 1 Infrastructure, Port Cities, Development -- Infrastructure and Urban Expansion -- Port Cities -- Development Economics -- Developmental Port Cities -- 2 Blueprint -- Geographical History of the Gulf Region -- Dubai of the Nineteenth Century -- Urban Morphology at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- In Search of Reform -- Oil Exploration and Increased British Paternalism -- Dubai Urban Infrastructure -- Air and Sea Ports -- Oil Discovery -- The Bluepint -- 3 Boom -- The British Empire is Dead-Long Live the Empire -- United Arab Emirates Formation -- Bi-furcated Expatriate Communities -- The Second Harris Master Plan -- 1973 Oil Boom and Regional Infrastructure Development -- The Queen's Visit -- Industrial Flooding -- Dubai Industrialization -- The Queen's Return -- Boom -- 4 Jebel Ali -- Mina Jebel Ali Port -- Competing Infrastructure in the 1980s -- Metropolitan Trade Apotheosis -- Contemporary Planning Challenges -- Beyond Jebel Ali -- The Legacy -- 5 Borrowing, Replication, Amplification -- Typological Borrowing -- Replication/Amplification -- Bilateral Asymmetry -- End of the Line? -- Time -- Entrepreneurial Modernism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Following 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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