ABSTRACT
The only place remotely comparable to China today is Dubai, which, thanks to our addiction to oil, has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years. The modularity and replication of Dubai within an international, developing context outside its territorial boundaries is certainly a strategic objective of the Dubai World Holding Company. Trade relations with Japan and South Korea brought companies, technology, and consultants to Dubai to help build port infrastructure based on their own postwar development model. In Dubai, infrastructure serves as an important physical element and artifact of the emirate, as exemplified by the creek, Dubai International Airport, Port Rashid, the World Trade Center, and the Jebel Ali Port, Industrial Area, and Free Zone. Infrastructure in Dubai came more as a package of objects, networks, and services that are projective in nature and can be deployed as a larger strategy for territorial settlement.
