Presents a study of female design engineers that has implications for attempts to change organizational culture. The text describes how the collision of gender and power in the workplace "disappears"
The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience. A multistranded contem
Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger betwee
Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger between
edited by Alexander Caragonne Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of ahandful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the lasttwo generations. His
edited by Alexander Caragonne Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of ahandful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the lasttwo generations. His
Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful
In this book Kaj Grønbæk and Randall H. Trigg present a set of principles for the design of open hypermedia systems and provide concrete implications of these principles for issues ranging from data s
Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet todevelop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced theInternet's design and use
Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art,architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on theother. In Evictions Rosalyn
Charles and Ray Eames, perhaps the most famous design partnership oftwentieth-century America, did pioneering work in furniture, film, architecture, and exhibitiondesign. Out of respect for Charles's
Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with
Covers the latest research in areas such as theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases,language design and implementation, non-monotonic reasoning, and logi
The contributors are among the world's leading researchers inautomated reasoning. Their essays cover the theory, software system design, and use of these systems to solve real problems.The primary obj
In April 1995, the USA Tax Bill was introduced into the United State Senate. This text is concerned with the theory and design of the progressive consumption tax and describes the ideals on which the
A historical look at styles of technological research and design. If it is true, as Tocqueville suggested, that social and class systems shape technology, research, and knowledge, then the effects s
This second volume of The Details of Modern Architecture continues the study of therelationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture,beginning in the late
This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is ajoyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design hasplayed in giving these
A collection of articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews, and memoranda by the legendary teacher of architecture and urban design. This first of three volumes comprises items written during or re
Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designablecharacteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed streetusers and design professionals
The Structure of Typed Programming Languages describes the fundamental syntactic and semantic features of modern programming languages, carefully spelling out their impacts on language design. Using c
Thinking Between the Lines targets a challenge at the heart of the artificial intelligence enterprise: the design of programs that can read and reason on the basis of written causal descriptions such
Their set of original studies of household chemicals, energy audits, and food risk labeling establishes guidelines for the design and evaluation of these informational regulations. How does risk label
This edited collection of articles from Computer Music Journal provides a timely and convenient source of tutorials on OOP languages and software design techniques and surveys a wide range of existing
The Swiss engineer Robert Maillart (1872-1940) built bridges and industrial buildings of startling originality. His innovative use of concrete, especially in the design of thin arch structures, and hi
An Essay on Stress presents a universal theory for the characterization of the stress patterns of words and phrases encountered in the languages of the world. The heart of the theory is constituted by
What principles should govern the design of governmental. budgetary and financial policy? Policymakers in the major industrial countries and officials of international organizations are deeply concern
Developed as the text for the basic computer architecture course at MIT, Computation Structures integrates a thorough coverage of digital logic design with a comprehensive presentation of computer ar
A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscapegardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of Englishcultural history, sho
The field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is concerned with the design, production, and use of highly complex integrated circuits. The research collected here comes from many disciplines, inclu
This book describes the design concept and discusses the control issues related to the performance of a direct-drive robot, specifically, a direct-drive mechanical arm capable of carrying up to 10 kil
While solar technology for individual buildings has become an accepted part ofarchitectural design, Knowles takes the next innovative step. In this book, he proposes solar accessin urban environments
This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis
This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context.
Possibly the largest interconnected systems in the world are telecommunications networks for public and private use. The principles underlying the design of the transmission and terminal components in
