ABSTRACT
Dubai and its leadership have proven to be close followers of regional trends, from Lingah, Aden, Kuwait, Bahrain, and their UAE brethren, and took advantage of its "latecomer" status. Dubai's borrowing would take many forms, but throughout its boom period of the past half century it has been essentially incremental, reactive, strategic, and competitive in nature. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the United States' Declaration of Independence, was clearly involved in founding a new nation, but his famed Monticello borrowed heavily from classical Palladian architecture. The British Gulf presence during the nineteenth and twentieth-century was an important factor that linked Dubai, Kuwait, and Bahrain, through the political connections, banking institutions such as the BBME, and also through the consulting and engineering firms working in the area. The product of typological amplification would then become its own new typology, which could be subsequently replicated and/or amplified further.
