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First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was
written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken
place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential
structure. The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses
on the demand-orientated approaches of human ecology and
neo-classical economics. Part Two discusses the institutional
approaches with reference to an analysis of private and public
sector housing in Britain, drawing on illustrative material from
North America and France to aid the comparative analysis of
institutional structures. Part Three is devoted to an evaluation of
the Marxist approaches to housing and residential structure from
Marx and Engels to Castells and Harvey.
Home Computers showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of
a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the
personal computer. As so much technology is forgotten once it is
superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design
and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past.
Conceived as a visual sourcebook of the most popular, most powerful
and most idiosyncratic computers to grace our workspaces, this
timely publication offers a reflection on how far we've come and a
nostalgic look at a time when digital worlds could be contained in
a box and turned off, rather than ever-present in our lives. Home
Computers opens with a scene-setting retrospective by computer and
gaming writer Alex Wiltshire. The book's heart is a series of
specially commissioned photographs that capture details of switches
and early user-interface design, letterforms and logos, and the
quirks that set one computer off from another. Images are
complemented by a potted history of each device, the inventors or
personalities behind it, and its innovations and influences.
A celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when
computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.Today,
people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them
"phones." A generation ago, people were amazed that the processing
power of a mainframe computer could be contained in a beige box on
a desk. This book is a celebration of those early home computers,
with specially commissioned new photographs of 100 vintage
computers and a generous selection of print advertising, product
packaging, and instruction manuals. Readers can recapture the glory
days of fondly remembered (or happily forgotten) machines including
the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple Lisa, and Mattel Aquarius--traces
of the techno-utopianism of the not-so-distant past. Home Computers
showcases mass-market success stories, rarities, prototypes,
one-offs, and never-before-seen specimens. The heart of the book is
a series of artful photographs that capture idiosyncratic details
of switches and plugs, early user-interface designs, logos, and
labels. After a general scene-setting retrospective, the book
proceeds computer by computer, with images of each device
accompanied by a short history of the machine, its inventors, its
innovations, and its influence. Readers who inhabit today's
always-on, networked, inescapably connected world will be charmed
by this visit to an era when the digital revolution could be
powered down every evening.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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