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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Robotic automation has become ubiquitous in the modern
manufacturing landscape, spanning an overwhelming range of
processes and applications-- from small scale force-controlled
grinding operations for orthopedic joints to large scale composite
manufacturing of aircraft fuselages. Smart factories, seamlessly
linked via industrial networks and sensing, have revolutionized
mass production, allowing for intelligent, adaptive manufacturing
processes across a broad spectrum of industries. Against this
background, an emerging group of researchers, designers, and
fabricators have begun to apply robotic technology in the pursuit
of architecture, art, and design, implementing them in a range of
processes and scales. Coupled with computational design tools the
technology is no longer relegated to the repetitive production of
the assembly line, and is instead being employed for the
mass-customization of non-standard components. This radical shift
in protocol has been enabled by the development of new design to
production workflows and the recognition of robotic manipulators as
multi-functional fabrication platforms, capable of being
reconfigured to suit the specific needs of a process.
The emerging discourse surrounding robotic fabrication seeks to
question the existing norms of manufacturing and has far reaching
implications for the future of how architects, artists, and
designers engage with materialization processes. This book presents
the proceedings of Rob-Arch2014, the second international
conference on robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design.
It includes a Foreword by Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes
Braumann, Association for Robots in Architecture. The work
contained traverses a wide range of contemporary topics, from
methodologies for incorporating dynamic material feedback into
existing fabrication processes, to novel interfaces for robotic
programming, to new processes for large-scale automated
construction. The latent argument behind this research is that the
term file-to-factory must not be a reductive celebration of
expediency but instead a perpetual challenge to increase the
quality of feedback between design, matter, and making. "
Many forces threaten the viability of town centers. One of them
is trade concentration in which family businesses are replaced by
large, vertically integrated retail enterprises. Town centers, once
locations of a rich variety of street stores in the hands of a
local and independent merchant community, are being supplanted by
monolithic and decentralized commercial zones. This process is
documented in contemporary Germany for two towns, one grounded in a
market economy and the other, until recently, socialistically
based. In both cases, trade concentration is a prevailing force-- a
pattern that is not only found in post-industrialized nations, but
also in developing countries in Latin America and Asia and is
indicative of an emerging global culture.
Wondering where to live in your later years? This strategic and
thoughtful guide is aimed at anyone looking to determine the best
place to call home during the second half of life. Place plays a
significant but often unacknowledged role in health and happiness.
The right place elevates personal well-being. It can help promote
purpose, facilitate human connection, catalyze physical activity,
support financial health, and inspire community engagement.
Conversely, the wrong place can be detrimental to health, as the
COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted. In Right Place, Right Time, Ryan
Frederick argues that where you live matters enormously-especially
during the second half of your life. Frederick, the CEO of
SmartLiving 360 and a recognized thought leader on the intersection
of place and healthy aging, provides you with tools to evaluate
your living situation, ensuring that you weigh all the necessary
factors to make a sound decision that optimizes your current and
future well-being. He explores the pros and cons of different
living options, from remaining in your current home to downsizing,
intergenerational living, co-housing, senior living, and more.
Along the way, he helps readers answer important questions,
including "Are you already in the right place?" and "In what areas
does your current place not align with your needs and desires?" The
rest of the book helps you to unpack specific options for place,
beginning with considerations for regions and neighborhoods and
then looking at specific housing models. It also focuses on how
housing is changing, particularly from a technology, health, and
health care perspective. The book closes by challenging the reader
to develop a discipline of choosing the right place at the right
time. Combining real-life stories about people selecting places to
live with design thinking principles and interactive tools, Right
Place, Right Time will appeal to empty nesters, retirees, solo
agers, and even adult children seeking ways to support their
parents and loved ones.
The reunification of Germany in 1990 has prompted far-reaching
debates about German identity, history and tradition. One framework
for these debates is provided by the extensive urban development
and building activities which have commenced in Eastern Germany
since 1990. This ethnographic case study of post-communist Dresden
explores the complex symbolic meanings of such projects as the
rebuilding of the Frauenkirche, Dresden's quarrels with the UNESCO
about a new Elbe bridge, and many others. It traces a history of
civic engagement from the time of the GDR through to the present of
reunified Germany, and demonstrates the built environment's
importance for identity construction in periods of social
transformation.
Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a
retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban
environments in Baguio City, designed by American architect and
planner Daniel Burnham in the early twentieth century, and
established by the American imperial government as a place for
healing and well-being. Based on a transdisciplinary multi-method
study of street vendors, the author offers a unique perspective as
a researcher of the place, to ultimately ask how marginalized women
authenticate and democratize prime urban spaces for their
livelihoods. This book provides a portal to another way of seeing
and understanding streets and people, covering spatial units at
multiple scales, design imperialism and its impact on health, and
resilience strategies for challenging realities. Blending subjects
of architecture, planning, and health, this book is an ideal read
for those interested in fields of urban planning and design, public
health, landscape architecture, geography, and social sciences.
"A civic economy is emerging," this book declares, "one which is
fundamentally both open and social." In the aftermath of the
financial crisis, and in an era of profound environmental and
social change, a collective reflection is taking place on how to
share civic prosperity. In the meantime, an increasing number of
social innovators are getting on with the job of remaking local
economies. Though locally driven, their initiatives are rooted in
global cultural and technological trends that preceded the recent
economic downturn. "Compendium for the Civic Economy" looks at 25
trailblazing projects, including the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.,
which helps young people with writing skills (while also selling
superhero gear); Tcho, a participatory chocolate manufacturer in
San Francisco; and various collectively founded or structured
supermarkets, hospitals, theaters and even internet providers
throughout the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.
Building or rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of
the English nobility and gentry, some might say their greatest
achievement. This is the first book to look at the building of
country houses as a whole. Creating Paradise shows why owners
embarked on building programmes, often following the Grand Tour or
excursions around other houses in England; where they looked for
architectural inspiration and assistance; and how the building work
was actually done. It deals not only with great houses, including
Holkham and Castle Howard, but also the diversity of smaller ones,
such as Felbrigg and Dyrham, and shows the cost not only of
building but of decorating and furnishing houses and of making
their gardens. Creating Paradise is an important and original
contribution to its subject and a highly readable account of the
attitude of the English ruling class to its most important
possession.
Sustainable Retail Development, addresses the emerging issue of
green retail buildings and retail development that will grow
significantly in importance over the next half-decade, a trend seen
throughout the developed world. This volume is a practical and
comprehensive guide to greening retail real estate, including green
building and marketing strategies, corporate sustainability
programs and features a 10-point action program for greening any
retail real estate portfolio.
Sustainable Retail Development, should be essential reading for
professionals in design, construction and operations of shopping
centers and retail stores. Well illustrated, this volume features
over 30 green retail developments from North America, Europe, South
America, Asia and Australia, as well as interviews with 25 leading
industry experts."
This book explains how in moving towards Cleaner Production, the
Lean Production Philosophy can be applied to reduce carbon
emissions in prefabrication - one major source of the Greenhouse
Gas (GHG) emissions which contribute to global climate change. This
book examines theories and principles in the Lean Production
Philosophy to develop situation-based carbon reduction strategies
for precast concrete manufacturers and contractors in terms of Site
layout, Supply Chain, Production, Stocks and Installation
Management. It presents the empirical findings of surveys and case
studies with managers and professionals working for precasters and
contractors in Singapore, findings which provide good practical
guidance for precast concrete manufacturers and contractors to
achieve low carbon emissions and to perform better in many
sustainability-based rating systems, such as the Singapore Green
Labelling Scheme and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA)
Green Mark Scheme.
Can regional and interregional mechanisms better institutionalize
the - creasing complexity of economic and security ties among
states in Nor- east, Southeast, and South Asia? As the
international state system und- goes dramatic changes in both
security and trade relations in the wake of the Cold War's end, the
Asian financial crisis, and the attacks of Sept- ber 11, 2001, this
question is now of critical importance to both academics and
policymakers. Still, little research has been done to integrate the
ana- sis of both regional security and economic dynamics within a
broader c- text that will give us theoretically informed policy
insights. Indeed, when we began our background research on the
origin and e- lution of Asia's institutional architecture in trade
and security, we found that many scholars had focused on individual
subregions, whether Nor- east, Southeast or South Asia. In some
cases, scholars examined links - tween Northeast and Southeast
Asia, and the literature often refers to these two subregions
collectively as "Asia," artificially bracketing South Asia. Of
course, we are aware that as products of culture, economics,
history, and politics, the boundaries of geographic regions change
over time. Yet the rapid rise of India and its increasing links to
East Asia (especially those formed in the early 1990s) suggest that
it would be fruitful to examine both developments within each
subregion as well as links across subregions.
The ceiling paintings in the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra have
not received serious scholarly attention for the past thirty years,
perhaps due to their difficult incorporation into a discrete
program of Christian vs. Islamic art, categories that until
recently remained unchallenged themselves. The Alhambra itself
continues to elicit the interest of many scholars, and several
recent interpretations of the function of the Palace of the Lions,
which houses the paintings, have been put forth. This collection
brings together art historians, literary critics and historians who
suggest new ways of approaching the paintings through their
immediate social, historical, architectural and literary contexts,
proposing a porous and flexible model for the production of culture
in Iberia. Contributors are Jerrylin Dodds, Ana Echevarria,
Jennifer Borland, Rosa Maria Rodriguez Porto, Oscar Martin, Amanda
Luyster, Cynthia Robinson and Simone Pinet.
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