Download or read book Typological Drift written by Shiqiao Li and published by Applied Research & Design. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the impact of the Chinese culture on the development of city types in China in the past four decades, leading to surprising urban realities that often escape normative urban theories. The book uses the concept of drift, which, together with mutation, adaptation, and migration, contributes to the rudimentary patterns of biological change; drift of phenotypes takes place when chance events randomly terminate some features and allow other features to flourish in ways that are unrelated to other patterns. The Chinese culture has exerted a set of forces that may be seen to have functioned as "unexpected events" in the normative processes of urban change. Through thirteen case studies, more than 60 original maps and drawings, and extensive photographic documentation, the book reveals how three "drift triggers"--ten thousand things, figuration, and group action--have altered typological development in Chinese cities in the past four decades.
Download or read book The Drift to the Cities written by George Sherwood Dickerman and published by . This book was released on 1913* with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drift written by Jeff Ferrell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.” In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation can become phenomena in their own right. Examining the history of drifting, Ferrell situates the contemporary global phenomenon of drift within today’s economic, social, and cultural dynamics. He also highlights a distinctly North American form of drift—that of the train-hopping hobo—by tracing the hobo’s political history and by sharing his own immersion in the world of contemporary train-hoppers. Along the way, Ferrell sheds light on the ephemeral intensity of drifting communities and explores the contested politics of drift—the legal and political strategies designed to control drifters in the interest of economic development, the irony by which these strategies spawn further social and spatial exclusion, and the ways in which drifters and those who embrace drift create their own slippery strategies of resistance. With an eye toward the truth, Ferrell keenly argues that the lessons of drift can provide us with new models for knowing and engaging with the world around us.
Download or read book Report written by United States. Industrial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drift Volume 11 Los Angeles written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After water, coffee is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It's a versatile backdrop for the everyday as well as the intersection to some of life's most memorable moments. It can be a morning ritual, a comforting companion to a book, an excuse for a first date, and often helps us see the world afresh when we travel. Drift Volume 11 washes up on the sunny coast of Southern California, home to one of America's most vibrant cities. Whether it's specialty Colombian coffee in the 'surfurbia' of Redondo Beach, or Cantonese-inspired drinks in Chinatown, L.A. has something for everyone.
Download or read book Drift written by Jim Miller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the hollowness of a city’s boom years Joe Blake is searching for something real in a seemingly depthless world. An alienated, underemployed professor and aspiring poet, Joe roams San Diego in his own personal disquiet and discovers that agony and ecstasy coexist all around him. Joe has fallen in love with Theresa Sanchez, a single mother cultivating her own garden of doubts. As Joe and Theresa negotiate their intimacy amid bouts of passion and lines of Neruda, they find common ground in their yearning for a more authentic life. But what they later discover along a lonely stretch of highway is almost too real for them to bear. As Drift uncovers the hidden past of this southwestern mecca—a history inhabited by the likes of Emma Goldman, Henry Miller, Mission Indians, and Theosophists—it captures the underlying emptiness and unease of San Diego circa 2000. Blake plays the postmodern flâneur in a theme-park city, drifting with the poetic eye of Baudelaire and the critical sensibilities of Walter Benjamin and the Situationist avant-garde. Depicting the sex, drugs, and death found in the borderlands, author Jim Miller portrays a city where cultures sometimes clash but more often pass one another almost wholly unaffected. Drift features original art by Perry Vasquez and photography by Jennifer Cost. A startling work laced with premonitions of dread, Drift is a Whitmanesque journey that puts readers squarely in its moment as it exposes the seamy underside of modern America.
Download or read book Drift to the City Way Out written by Joseph John Spengler and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publication of the American Sociological Society written by American Sociological Association and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1, 5-25, 28 (supplemental list in v. 26-27)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report to the Board of Geological Survey of Michigan written by Michigan. Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the State Board of Geological Survey for the Year written by Michigan. Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the State Board of Geological Survey of Michigan for the Year written by Michigan. Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Underground and Surface Water Supplies of Wisconsin written by Samuel Weidman and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines for the Year Ending written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drift written by Jim Miller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the hollowness of a city’s boom years Joe Blake is searching for something real in a seemingly depthless world. An alienated, underemployed professor and aspiring poet, Joe roams San Diego in his own personal disquiet and discovers that agony and ecstasy coexist all around him. Joe has fallen in love with Theresa Sanchez, a single mother cultivating her own garden of doubts. As Joe and Theresa negotiate their intimacy amid bouts of passion and lines of Neruda, they find common ground in their yearning for a more authentic life. But what they later discover along a lonely stretch of highway is almost too real for them to bear. As Drift uncovers the hidden past of this southwestern mecca—a history inhabited by the likes of Emma Goldman, Henry Miller, Mission Indians, and Theosophists—it captures the underlying emptiness and unease of San Diego circa 2000. Blake plays the postmodern flâneur in a theme-park city, drifting with the poetic eye of Baudelaire and the critical sensibilities of Walter Benjamin and the Situationist avant-garde. Depicting the sex, drugs, and death found in the borderlands, author Jim Miller portrays a city where cultures sometimes clash but more often pass one another almost wholly unaffected. Drift features original art by Perry Vasquez and photography by Jennifer Cost. A startling work laced with premonitions of dread, Drift is a Whitmanesque journey that puts readers squarely in its moment as it exposes the seamy underside of modern America.
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Download or read book Drift into Failure written by Professor Sidney Dekker and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to understand better how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift.
