Download or read book Regionmaker written by MVRDV (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structural exploration of the future of the Rhine-Ruhr region has been documented in this book - a commentary on the meaning of region, identity and tradition by MVRDV exhibited at NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf from November 15, 2002 - February 15, 2003.
Download or read book Five Minutes City written by Winy Maas and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winy Maas proposed a provocative and inspiring brief; he asked participants to redesign the cities of Rotterdam and New York in a way that everything is reachable within five minutes. A series of serious questions arise from the challenging brief: 'What will such a city look like? What happens to such an hypothesis if cars are the only mode of transport? What will such a city look like when it is only accessed by public transport? Or by walking?' How one can extend the knowledge of compact or dense cities? How fast cities can be? Is increased speed an ideal concept for future cities? Is development of new infrastructure sustainable for cities in future? Can Rotterdam become such a city? Is it possible to upscale Manhattan? How does mobility affects the working and living qualities of the cities and how is mobility shaping cities?
Download or read book Space Time Play written by Friedrich von Borries and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer and video games are leaving the PC and conquering the arena of everyday life in the form of mobile applications—the result is new types of cities and architecture. How do these games alter our perception of real and virtual space? What can the designers of physical and digital worlds learn from one another?
Download or read book Information is Alive written by Joke Brouwer and published by V2_ publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archive has of late proven to be a powerful metaphor: history is viewed as an archive of facts from which one can draw at will; our bodies have become a genetic archive since being digitally opened up in the human genome project; our language is an archive of meanings that can be unlocked using philological tools; and the unconscious is an archive of the traumatic experiences that mold our identity. More and more artists and architects are developing software systems in which data is automatically organized into complex knowledge systems, a process in which the user is only one of the determining factors. Databases, software and archives increasingly form the inspiration for artistic interventions. Information Is Alive considers the artistic potential of these couplings via a selection of essays, interviews and projects by anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, philosopher Brian Massumi, writer Sadie Plant, paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, artists Margarete Jahrmann, Lev Manovich, Michael Saup, Jeffrey Shaw, Stahl Stenslie and others. Published on the occasion of the third Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF03).
Download or read book Space Fighter written by Winny Maas and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the Evolutionary City by simulating the challenges of urban growth, decline, and vitality.
Download or read book AP Human Geography All Access written by Christian Sawyer and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything you need to prepare for the AP exam, in a study system built around you -- Book : a complete subject review; Web : REA study center ; Mobile : E-Flashcards."--Cover.
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Download or read book In the Bubble written by John Thackara and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
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Download or read book Planning and Place in the City written by Marichela Sepe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Marichela Sepe explores the preservation, reconstruction and enhancement of cultural heritage and place identity. She outlines the history of the concept of placemaking, and sets out the range of different methods of analysis and assessment that are used to help pin down the nature of place identity.
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Design written by Hanif Kara and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects and engineers both claim to be designers, though how they define design and the approaches they use to realize it, vary widely. However their interaction has also created some of the world's most memorable, enduring and impressive buildings. The unprecedented impact of digital technologies illuminates the complexity and non-linearity of the process that these designers go through while massively expanding both the ability to visualize and represent forms, and to analyze their structural behavior. It has obviously changed both architecture and engineering, and so also the potential for interaction between them. Interdisciplinary Design began as a course at Harvard GSD attended by graduate students in architecture and also by MIT graduate students in structural engineering and computation. In this course students and instructors examined a series of built projects in order to develop new viewpoints and communication across disciplinary boundaries in teaching, practice and construction.
Download or read book A Cardiff City Region Metro written by Mark Barry and published by Institute of Welsh Affairs. This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report sets out a vision for a Cardiff City Region Metro focussed on economic development and regeneration.
Download or read book FTCE Social Science 6 12 037 Book Online written by Cynthia Metcalf and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FTCE Social Science Grades 6-12 Test Prep with Online Practice Tests 3rd Edition - Completely Aligned with the Current Exam REA's FTCE Social Science Grades 6-12 test prep is designed to help teacher candidates pass the FTCE Social Science exam and get certified to teach. Our test prep is perfect for teacher education students and career-changing professionals who are seeking certification as social science teachers in Florida. Written by a Florida education expert and fully aligned with the latest test specifications, our book contains a targeted review of all the competencies and skills tested on the exam: geography, economics, political science, world history, U.S. history, and social science and its methodology. An online diagnostic test based on actual FTCE exam questions pinpoints strengths and weaknesses and helps you identify areas in need of further study. Two full-length practice tests (in the book and online) are balanced to include every type of question on the test. Our online tests are offered in a timed format with automatic scoring and diagnostic feedback to help you zero in on the topics and types of questions that give you trouble now, so you can succeed on test day. This test prep is a must-have for anyone who wants to become a social science teacher in Florida! REA books and software have proven to be the extra support teacher candidates need to pass their challenging tests for licensure. Our comprehensive test preps are teacher-recommended and written by experts in the field.
Download or read book Ftce Social Science 6 12 W CD ROM written by Cynthia Metcalf and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to preparing for the Florida Teacher Certification Exam in sixth through twelfth grade social studies, including reviews of content, test-taking strategies, two practice tests with explained answers, and a CD-ROM with additional study resources.
Download or read book HiCat Multilayered strategies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HiperCatalunya seeks to posit an advanced survey of today's territory, in order to import tomorrow's potentials: to interrogate the territory in order to bring out its capacities and latencies. Beyond the traditional mechanisms of territorial analysis, this collective action seeks to recognize and express a multidisciplinary approach to our surroundings, promoting interpretations open to a possible interaction between the existing and the imaginable, in keeping with an innovative dimension of contemporary culture capable of engendering new spaces for new lifestyles, but also new logics and new aesthetics for new scenarios of progress. HiperCatalunya thus seeks to reflect and to stimulate reflection on the authentic territorial dimension of Catalonia by formulating, through theoretical and practical approaches, four main areas of analysis, reflection and venturing, understood as operative frameworks but also as strategic layers of action, aimed at anticipating and visualizing possible key questions for a future development of the territory"--V.1, back cover.
Download or read book Urban Scape Switzerland written by Angelus Eisinger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settlement areas today can no longer be aptly described as either "urban" or "rural". We now live in sprawling conglomerations, collages of urban, suburban, and rural elements. New political solutions need to be found, challenging the institutional framework of federalism and the concept of local government. Commissioned by the foundation 'avenir suisse' (Think Tank for Economic and Social Issues), this publication gathers contributions by experts from the fields of sociology, geography, politics, economics and architecture, including Winy Maas' (MVRDV) vision for a Switzerland of the future. Whilst focusing on Switzerland as a case study, this book is a thought-provoking report on the gradual changes taking place in all industrialised countries. Angelus Eisinger teaches at the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Michael Schneider is the project leader at 'avenir suisse'.
