We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, b
Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, G
Biological sewage treatment, like electricity, power generation, telephones, and masstransit, has been a key technology and a major part of the urban infrastructure since the latenineteenth century. B
Anyone who has studied linguistics in the last half-century has been affected by thework of David Perlmutter. One of the era's most versatile linguists, he is perhaps best known as thefounder (with Pa
In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions in urban centers. T
Water links all aspects of our existence. From the politics of watersheds to theromance of turtles climbing up from the sea to the beaches, from Leonardo da Vinci to Octavio Paz,from death at a hot sp
Excerpt from the Preface The principal motivation for this work arose from theobvious desirability of finding a single quantity, a tag so to speak, to describe the noiseperformance of a two-terminal-p
