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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers

Sheila Jasanoff — 2008-03-24T20:35:53-00:00

(19 August 1998)

 How can decisionmakers charged with protecting the environment and the public's health and safety steer clear of false and misleading scientific research? Is it possible to give scientists a stronger voice in regulatory processes without yielding too much control over policy, and how can this be harmonized with democratic values? These are just some of the many controversial and timely questions that Sheila Jasanoff asks in this study of the way science advisers shape federal policy. In their expanding role as advisers, scientists have emerged as a formidable fifth branch of government. But even though the growing dependence of regulatory agencies on scientific and technical information has granted scientists a greater influence on public policy, opinions differ as to how those contributions should be balanced against other policy concerns. More important, who should define what counts as good science when all scientific claims incorporate social factors and are subject to negotiation? Jasanoff begins by describing some significant failures--such as nitrites, Love Canal, and alar--in administrative and judicial decisionmaking that fed the demand for more peer review of regulatory science. In analyzing the nature of scientific claims and methods used in policy decisions, she draws comparisons with the promises and limitations of peer review in scientific organizations operating outside the regulatory context. The discussion of advisory mechanisms draws on the author's close scrutiny of two highly visible federal agencies--the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. Here we see the experts in action as they deliberate on critical issues such as clean air, pesticide regulation, and the safety of pharmaceuticals and food additives. Jasanoff deftly merges legal and institutional analysis with social studies of science and presents a strong case for procedural reforms. In so doing, she articulates a social-construction model that is intended to buttress the effectiveness of the fifth branch.

Teufelsfragen. 2 Audio-CD's . Ethische Konflikte in der Biomedizin

2008-03-24T19:49:24-00:00

Urban Form and Travel Behaviour: Micro-level Household Attributes and Residential Context

FM Dieleman — 2008-03-11T10:48:15-00:00

pp. 507-527.

Many countries now have policies to reduce distances travelled by private car and to favour the use of public transport, cycling and walking. The development of compact urban forms and the design of urban communities which favour walking are seen as particularly effective strategies for reducing car dependency. The factors which determine travel behaviour are not fully understood, so that effective policies influencing travel patterns are difficult to formulate. Apart from urban form and design, personal attributes and circumstances have an impact on modal choice and distances travelled. People with higher incomes are more likely to own and use a private car than low-income households. Families with children use cars more often than one-person households. The purpose of a trip—work, shopping and leisure—also influences travel mode and distance. We used the Netherlands National Travel Survey (OVG) to explore some of these relationships in more depth. The relative importance of personal attributes and the characteristics of residential environments as determinants of modal choice and travel distance were explored. Both sets of factors maintain a clear, strong relationship with travel behaviour in multivariate models of travel behaviour.

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods (Sustainable Urban Development)

Mark Deakin — 2008-03-10T15:09:15-00:00

(17 May 2007)

This second volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series focuses on assessing the impact of the urban process and providing statements as to the sustainability of development plans, programmes and projects. It sets out the regulatory framework and revisits the methodological issues presented in Volume 1 of the series, providing detailed examination of environmental, economic and social evaluations of sustainable urban development. Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods draws attention to the impact that development - in the form of buildings, utilities and transportation systems - has on natural resource consumption and the quality of cultural heritage.

Urban Patterns and Environmental Performance: What Do We Know?

Marina Alberti — 2008-03-10T14:36:28-00:00

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 19, No. 2. (1 December 1999), pp. 151-163.

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the relationships between urban patterns and various dimensions of environmental quality and performance. I first examine approaches to measuring urban environmental perfomance, drawing on the concepts of carrying capacity, ecological footprint, environmental space, and appropriated ecosystem area. Since cities affect and are affected by ecological systems far beyond their physical boundaries, I propose including interactions at the local, regional, and global scales in the definition of environmental performance. I then systematcally review the current literature on the reltionship between four structural variables typically used to describe urban patternform, density, grain, and connectivity and four dimensions of environmental perfomance sources, sinks, ecological support systems, and human well-being. I conclude that what we measure and the scale of analysis affect the direction of observable urban ipacts. We must consider these factors as we select measures of urban environmental peformance. 10.1177/0739456X9901900205

Measuring urban sustainability

Marina Alberti — 2008-03-10T14:29:01-00:00

Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 16, No. 4-6. ( 1996), pp. 381-424.

URBAN ENVIRONMENT

S Pandey — 2008-03-10T13:27:26-00:00

Connections, Vol. 713, No. 728.

Urban Form, Energy and the Environment: A Review of Issues, Evidence and Policy

WP Anderson — 2008-03-10T12:57:11-00:00

pp. 7-36.

The spatial configuration of cities and its relationship to the urban environment has recently been the subject of empirical, theoretical and policy research. Because of the disciplines involved, relevant articles are scattered over a large number of journals. The objective of this paper is to put the issues in perspective by reviewing the basic concepts and relationships involved, and to evaluate critically the current state of knowledge about urban form, energy utilisation and the environment. The scope of the paper is limited to urban transport energy use and the associated emissions. Suggestions for further progress in the field are offered, with emphasis placed on integrated urban models as useful and policy-sensitive analytical tools.

Understanding and representing `place' in health research: A relational approach

Steven Cummins — 2008-02-06T16:33:55-00:00

Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 65, No. 9. (November 2007), pp. 1825-1838.

Epidemiology, sociology, and geography have been successful in re-establishing interest in the role of place in shaping health and health inequalities. However, some of the relevant empirical research has relied on rather conventional conceptions of space and place and focused on isolating the "independent" contribution of place-level and individual-level factors. This approach may have resulted in an underestimate of the contribution of `place' to disease risk. In this paper we argue the case for extensive (quantitative) as well as intensive (qualitative) empirical, as well as theoretical, research on health variation that incorporates `relational', views of space and place. Specifically, we argue that research in place and health should avoid the false dualism of context and composition by recognising that there is a mutually reinforcing and reciprocal relationship between people and place. We explore in the discussion how these theoretical perspectives are beginning to influence empirical research. We argue that these approaches to understanding how place relates to health are important in order to deliver effective, `contextually sensitive' policy interventions.

Managing Urban America

David Morgan — 2008-01-02T14:31:19-00:00

(11 September 2006)

Urban managers continue to do what they have done for decades: manage conflict, adapt to shifting demographics, balance their own source funds with intergovernmental revenues, respond to federal and state mandates, negotiate with other localities in their same metropolitan area, and deliver goods and services. But managers today are confronted with new challenges in what has become "fend for yourself" federalism. City executives must do more with less while at the same time figure out ways to harness the power of new technologies and react to a globalized world and economy. It is no wonder then that even great managers can fail at urban administration. To succeed, they must understand the nature of community values, the pitfalls of bureaucratic inertia, and the craft of leadership--that is, the politics of urban management. Morgan, England, and Pelissero offer a forward-looking account of this new urban management environment. In a comprehensive update, the authors have reorganized the book's structure to better fit the challenges facing today's cities, and make even greater use of systems theory as an analytic framework. Featuring discussions of the New Public Management model, the impacts of globalization, changes in service delivery, urban planning, economic development, and program evaluation, they discuss key productivity enhancements that emphasize results and accountability. The authors then focus on the impact of citizen participation, e-government, the events of 9/11, and intergovernmental relations as examples of significant environmental factors that impinge on the management of modern cities. In addition, every case study in the book is brand new and many include information on "Connecting to the Internet" and "Profiles of Urban Practitioners and Scholars."

Das Wüten der ganzen Welt.

Maarten Hart — 2007-12-27T09:10:48-00:00

(01 April 1999)

Von Liebe keine Spur: Das Elsass und die Deutschen

Martin Graff — 2007-12-04T16:21:18-00:00

Stalins verhinderter Erstschlag. Hitler erstickt die Weltrevolution.

Viktor Suworow — 2007-12-03T22:58:13-00:00

(31 May 2000)

Die Kritiken.

Immanuel Kant — 2007-12-03T22:52:20-00:00

(29 February 2004)

Europa ohne Frankreich? Deutsche Anmerkungen zur französischen Frage

Markus Kerber — 2007-12-03T22:51:47-00:00

(01 January 1999)

The Edifice Complex

Deyan Sudjic — 2007-12-03T22:45:04-00:00

(02 June 2005)

e-topia

William Mitchell — 2007-08-03T09:49:46-00:00

(17 September 1999)

This little book begins with a big claim: the city is dead, and cyberspace killed it. But Mitchell, it turns out, is too intelligent an observer to really mean anything quite so drastic. Despite his weakness for bold, catchy statements (and it is a weakness), this MIT architecture professor has both feet planted in the long and much-studied history of urban spaces, and he draws from it a pragmatic optimism that keeps his argument both hopeful and nuanced. His real thesis: Under cyberspace's influence, the city is changing, no more or less radically than it did under the influence of postal systems, electricity, and cars. And if we ride the new changes carefully, he insists, the places we live and work in can become "e-topias--lean, green cities that work smarter, not harder." As in his bestselling City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, Mitchell floats his claims on a brisk stream of technological detail, much of it eye-opening, all of it clearly presented. Low-earth-orbit satellites; small-scale, wearable computer networks woven into underpants; artificially intelligent houses; and the logistics of high-tech pizza delivery are just a few of the phenomena that go into Mitchell's sketch of the emergent digital city. Casually erudite nods to urban theorists from Plato to Lewis Mumford to William H. Gates III round out the portrait. In the end, Mitchell shows us the city doing more or less what it has always done: evolving away from its simple, ancient roots toward increasingly mediated complexity. --Julian Dibbell The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure--one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this lucid, invigorating book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our future daily lives. Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian circulation and mechanized transportation systems. He proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social, and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world. The new settlement patterns of the twenty-first century will be characterized by live/work dwellings, 24-hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods rich in social relationships, and vigorous local community life, complemented by far-flung configurations of electronic meeting places and decentralized production, marketing, and distribution systems. Neither digiphile nor digiphobe, Mitchell advocates the creation of e-topias--cities that work smarter, not harder.

Deutschlands Wiederkehr. Eine ungeteilte Nachkriegsgeschichte 1945-1990

Peter Bender — 2007-12-03T22:41:33-00:00

Melancholie und Gesellschaft.

Wolf Lepenies — 2007-12-03T22:40:46-00:00

(01 February 1998)

Soziale Systeme. Grundriß einer allgemeinen Theorie.

Niklas Luhmann — 2006-06-21T01:17:55-00:00

(01 January 2001)

The Urban and Regional Planning Reader (Routledge Urban Readersseries)

Eugenie Birch — 2007-12-03T22:37:39-00:00

(30 January 2008)

The Urban and Regional Planning Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings illuminate the planning of cities and metropolitan areas. Forty-five generous selections include contributions from Mumford, Jacobs, McHarg, Davidoff, and Harr through to Fainstein, Healey, Hoch and Beatley. The reader lays out the context, range of concerns, history, methods, and key topics for 21st century planning. With a focus on the distribution of space and the distribution of place, the reader contains essays on housing, transportation design, environment, community development, the effects of cultural diversity and information technology on land use, and other topics.

Die versprengten Deutschen. Unterwegs in Litauen, durch die Zips und am Schwarzen Meer

Karl-Markus Gauß — 2007-12-03T22:35:37-00:00

(20 January 2005)

Sterbenden Europaer: Unterwegs zu den Sepharden von Sarajevo, Gottscheer Deutschen, Arbereshe, Sorben und Aromunen

Karl-Markus Gauss — 2007-12-03T22:34:31-00:00

(01 August 2002)

Von wegen nix zu machen. Werkzeugkiste für Weltverbesserer

Jürgen Becker — 2007-12-02T09:27:52-00:00

Die Schweiz - ein städtebauliches Portrait: Bd. 1: Einführung - Bd. 2: Grenzen, Gemeinden : eine kurze Geschichte des Territoriums - Bd. 3: Materialien

Roger Diener — 2007-12-02T09:26:51-00:00

(04 July 2006)

Das «ETH Studio Basel Institut Stadt der Gegenwart» hat das Territorium der Schweiz in einer mehrjährigen Forschungsarbeit in allen seinen vielschichtigen Aspekten untersucht. Geografische, historische, sprachliche, kulturelle, soziale, ökonomische, verkehrspolitische, urbanistische und architektonische Strukturen sind in ihrer vielfältigen Kombinatorik erfasst worden. «Das Wissen über dieses Land blockiert sogar weitere Erkenntnisse Die eigentliche Herausforderung unserer Arbeit hat deshalb darin bestanden, die Fakten, auch Alltagserfahrungen, selbst Plattitüden so gegeneinander zu montieren, dass sie zu glühen beginnen Schliesslich wollen die Schweizer weder Natur noch Stadt, sondern ein bisschen beides und keines so richtig Eine These: Die Schweiz, das Land der Hyperdifferenz, kann Differenz schlechter leben und gestalten als jedes andere Land!» (Jacques Herzog und Marcel Meili im Gespräch über die Schweiz) Die Darstellung zeigt einerseits die Genese, die Konstanten und die Variablen auf. Indem sie andererseits für die wichtigen Metropolitan-Regionen und für die Alpenregion künftige mögliche und/oder wünschbare Szenarien entwirft, gewinnt sie aktuelle politische Brisanz. Das Werk gliedert sich in drei Teilbände sowie eine doppelte Porträt-Landeskarte der Schweiz.

THE METABOLISM OF CITIES.

A WOLMAN — 2007-09-29T12:39:59-00:00

Sci Am, Vol. 213 (September 1965), pp. 179-190.

Global Networks, Linked Cities

Saskia Sassen — 2006-05-14T15:36:51-00:00

(01 March 2002)

Reimagining cities as nodes of an immense network of commercial and political transactions, sociologist Saskia Sassen has transformed Information Age geography. Global Networks, Linked Cities collects research, theory, and case studies examining cities in this context by Sassen and 19 other social scientists, focusing particularly on the recent explosive growth in areas formerly--now inaccurately--called the Third World. The jargon in Global Networks, Linked Cities can be fairly dense and the style arid, but the essays reward patient readers with insight into the interlinked worlds of finance, geography, communications, and geopolitics. Most of the pieces look closely at individual urban regions: Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and, interestingly, Beirut. All have much to tell us about the organic urban development coevolving with globalized commerce and communications, says editor Sassen. As barriers to free information flow erode, we see mergers between political, business, and academic entities.Global Networks, Linked Cities shows us how this is happening and how to think about what's coming next. --Rob Lightner Authors look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become 'global' through the networks they participate in. Investigates emerging global cities in the developing world. Softcover. Hardcover available.

The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-city Regions in Europe

Peter Hall — 2007-09-14T13:50:34-00:00

(01 July 2006)

A new 21st-century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city-region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labor. This book, the outcome of a major international research program, describes and analyzes eight such regions: South East England, the Bassin Parisien, Central Belgium, the Dutch Randstad, RhineRuhr, Rhine-Main, Northern Switzerland, and Greater Dublin. For the first time, this work shows how businesses interrelate and communicate in geographical space – within each region, between them, and with the wider world. It goes on to demonstrate the profound consequences for spatial planning and regional development in Europe – and, by implication, other similar urban regions of the world. Arranged in five parts, the book introduces the concept of a megacity region, analyzes its characteristics, examines the issues surrounding regional identities, and discusses policy ramifications and outcomes for infrastructure, transport systems, and regulation. Packed with high quality maps and case study data, and written in a clear style by highly experienced authors, this will be an insightful and significant analysis suitable for professionals in urban planning and policy, business and investment communities, technical libraries, and students in urban studies, geography, economics, and planning. The book includes contributions from partners based in each case study area.

Intake fraction distributions for indoor VOC sources in five European cities

V Ilacqua — 2007-08-27T12:56:42-00:00

Indoor Air, Vol. 0, No. 0. (0000), pp. ???-???.

Abstract Distributions of intake fractions for indoor air emissions were estimated for five cities in the EXPOLIS study (Athens, Basel, Helsinki, Oxford, and Prague). Intake fractions are an expression of the mass of a pollutant that reaches a target compared with the mass emitted by a source. They facilitate direct comparisons of the relative impact of different sources on individual or population exposure and dose. The computation of the distributions was obtained through Monte Carlo simulations, based on distributions of residence volume, air exchange rates and time-activity data, calculated from the EXPOLIS database, as well as on distributions from the literature. Some approximations were made that are valid for persistent pollutants and continuous sources, such as emissions from building materials, pesticides, molds, as well as for certain non-continuous sources such as cooking or cleaning products. For these categories of sources, intake fractions are approximately independent of the actual indoor concentrations and irrespective of the source. Intake fractions in the five populations examined followed approximately lognormal distributions. The mean individual intake fractions exhibited some variability across cities, ranging from 1.5 x 10-3 in Athens to 4.5 x 10-3 in Helsinki. Intake fractions for all the people in a household followed similar distributions, with mean values ranging from 4.6 x 10-3 in Athens to 11.8 x 10-3 in Helsinki. This modest variability mostly reflects the differences in climates and consequent air-tightness of the buildings. The 95th percentile of the distributions were two to three times the mean values, indicating substantial homogeneity within each population as well. These results compare well with previous estimates for environmental tobacco smoke and cooking, and are two to three orders of magnitude larger than estimates for outdoor sources. Practical Implications Emissions from indoor sources were estimated to be approximately 1000 times more likely to reach a human target than emissions from outdoor sources. Strategies to reduce exposure to indoor sources can only realistically focus on reducing the strength of the emissions.

Splintering Urbanism; Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

Stephen Graham — 2006-05-01T06:24:28-00:00

(01 June 2001)

This work offers a path-breaking analysis of the nature of the urban condition at the start of the new millennium. Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, it reveals how new technologies and increasingly privatised systems of infrastructure provision--telecommunications, highways, urban streets, energy, and water--are supporting the splintering of metropolitan areas across the world.

Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities

Howard Frumkin — 2007-08-24T17:06:25-00:00

(09 July 2004)

In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and development in our communities has been of the low-density, automobile-dependent type known as sprawl. The authors examine the direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and discuss the prospects for improving public health through alternative approaches to design, land use, and transportation. Urban Sprawl and Public Health offers a comprehensive look at the interface of urban planning, architecture, transportation, community design, and public health. It summarizes the evidence linking adverse health outcomes with sprawling development, and outlines the complex challenges of developing policy that promotes and protects public health. Anyone concerned with issues of public health, urban planning, transportation, architecture, or the environment will want to read Urban Sprawl and Public Health.

Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory

Edward Soja — 2007-08-24T13:34:17-00:00

(09 February 1989)

The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

2007-08-24T13:33:10-00:00

(09 April 1998)

Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather than consensus, the editors of The City have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. Together the essays--by experts in urban planning, architecture, geography, and sociology--create a new kind of urban analysis, one that is open to diversity but strongly committed to collective theoretical and practical understanding.

Thirdspace: Expanding the Geographical Imagination

Edward Soja — 2007-08-24T13:32:02-00:00

(01 October 1996)

Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space and the embracing spatiality of human life with the same critical insight and emphasis that has traditionally been given to time and history on the one hand, and social relations and society on the other. Thirdspace is both an enquiry into the origins and impact of the spatial turn and an attempt to expand the scope and practical relevance of how we think about space and such related concepts as place, location, landscape, architecture, environment, home, city, region, territory, and geography.The book's central argument is that spatial thinking, or what has been called the geographical or spatial imagination, has tended to be bicameral, or confined to two approaches. Spatiality is either seen as concrete material forms to be mapped, analyzed, and explained; or as mental constructs, ideas about and representations of space and its social significance. Edward Soja critically re-evaluates this dualism to create an alternative approach, one that comprehends both the material and mental dimensions of spatiality but also extends beyond them to new and different modes of spatial thinking.Thirdspace is composed as a sequence of intellectual and empirical journeys, beginning with a spatial biography of Henri Lefebvre and his adventurous conceptualization of social space as simultaneously perceived, conceived, and lived. The author draws on Lefebvre to describe a trialectics of spatiality that threads though all subsequent journeys, reappearing in many new forms in bell hooks evocative exploration of the margins as a space of radical openness; in post-modern spatial feminist interpretations of the interplay of race, class, and gender; in the postcolonial critique and the new cultural politics of difference and identity; in Michel Foucault's heterotopologies and trialectics of space, knowledge, and power; and in interpretative tours of the Citadel of downtown Los Angeles, the Exopolis of Orange County, and the Centrum of Amsterdam.

Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions

Edward Soja — 2007-08-24T10:42:26-00:00

(31 March 2000)

The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An Intellectual History

M Dear — 2007-08-24T09:57:30-00:00

pp. 493-509.

Los Angeles, or more precisely, the Southern California region, has many claims on our attention, but until recently it has been regarded as an exception to the rules governing American urban development. Since the mid-1980s, a remarkable outpouring of scholarship has given birth to a "Los Angeles School" of urbanism. This essay outlines the intellectual history of the LA School, explains the distinctiveness of its break with previous traditions (especially those of the Chicago School), and advocates the need for a comparative urban analysis that utilizes Los Angeles not as a new urban "paradigm," but as one of many exemplars of contemporary urban process.

The Architecture of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg

Phyllis Lambert — 2007-08-21T20:18:15-00:00

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, has risen to become one of the most prominent architectural offices in Canada, where they have realised numerous projects including the Kitchener City Hall (1990), Queen's University Library in Kingston, Kanada (1992-1995) and the Hilton Hotel Toronto (2000). In addition, they have built up a reputation in the fields of interior and retail design, and the creation of upmarket single-family furnished housing. In Europe KPMB have made their mark with Zurich airport's Star Alliance Lounge and the new Canadian embassy in Berlin, scheduled for completion towards the end of 2004. This monograph presents 20 of their recent and current projects.

Bildregie: Architektur zwischen Retrodesign und Eventkultur (Bauwelt Fundamente)

Werner Sewing — 2007-08-21T18:40:33-00:00

(30 September 2003)

Die Konkurrenz zwischen Traditionalisten und Modernen um die Definitionsmacht über den gebauten Raum hat sich zum Motor der Imagebildung in der Standortkonkurrenz städtischer Zentren entwickelt. Dabei stützen Neomoderne und Neotraditionalismus gleichermaßen die Simulation einer längst globalisierten, gleichwohl lokal inszenierten städtischen Kultur. Der Architektur fällt die Rolle zu, das zentrale Medium für "Identifikation" und touristische Attraktion zu werden. Werner Sewings historische und soziologische Essays zur Architekturdiskussion zwischen zweiter Moderne und Neotraditionalismus sowie zur Soziologie der Architektur als Profession werden ergänzt durch grundlegende Aufsätze zum "Berliner Architekturstreit" der neunziger Jahre.

Schulen in Deutschland. Neubau und Revitalisierung

Roland Schule — 2007-08-19T17:07:53-00:00

(31 May 2004)

Global relevance of total building performance

Volker Hartkopf — 2007-08-18T23:00:45-00:00

Automation in Construction, Vol. 8, No. 4. (April 1999), pp. 377-393.

Global population and environmental trends demand a radical departure from current building and developmental processes. Applying total building performance thinking can reduce energy consumption, pollution and waste in existing and new construction by a factor of 4 and simultaneously can improve quality of life within buildings--measured through occupant satisfaction, health and productivity. The further development of advanced energy and water systems, and the application of appropriate technology and systems integration concepts will help to enable the elimination of `waste-streams', avoiding obsolescence, as well as managing industrial and agricultural nutrient streams. Instead of treating buildings and their contents as `pre-garbage', worse `pre toxic-waste', all material flows can be considered within life cycles for `cradle to cradle' use. These concepts can make major contributions towards the creation of more sustainable lifestyles with even greater quality in the industrialized countries and the development and implementation of sustainable urban and building infrastructures in rapidly emerging economies. Rather than the continued export of non-sustainable building solutions, this paper argues for the development and demonstration of such practices in the industrialized countries that would create a progressive `pull' to enable the appropriate implementation of new practices.

Demonstration intelligent building--a methodology for the promotion of total sustainability in the built environment

HW Kua — 2007-08-18T17:43:31-00:00

Building and Environment, Vol. 37, No. 3. (March 2002), pp. 231-240.

The idea to relate intelligent building projects and demonstrations to total sustainability in the built environment is presented in this paper. By considering intelligent buildings in the spirit of built heritage conservation, future architectural and construction efforts can contribute toward emergence of durable buildings that are meant to enhance sustainability in the built environment. The promotion of intelligent and green technologies should be educational in nature, reaching out to a wide range of parties and allowing them to participate in the progress of the technologies. We propose an initiative to promote this process. We also examine two case studies of existing demonstration projects.

Wirtshausgespräche in der Erweiterungszone

Karl-Markus Gauß — 2007-08-13T21:59:41-00:00

(28 February 2005)

Health and Community Design: The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity

Lawrence Frank — 2007-08-13T10:37:10-00:00

(23 May 2003)

Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides important information about the factors that influence decisions about physical activity and modes of travel, and about how land use patterns can be changed to help overcome barriers to physical activity. Chapters examine:<ul>• the historical relationship between health and urban form in the United States • why urban and suburban development should be designed to promote moderate types of physical activity • the divergent needs and requirements of different groups of people and the role of those needs in setting policy • how different settings make it easier or more difficult to incorporate walking and bicycling into everyday activities</ul>A concluding chapter reviews the arguments presented and sketches a research agenda for the future.

Lead Markt Deutschland--Zur Position Deutschlands als führender Absatzmarkt für Innovationen

M Beise — 2007-08-12T23:42:08-00:00

ZEW Dokumentation Nr (2002), pp. 02-02.

How Doctors Think

Jerome Groopman — 2007-03-23T00:01:41-00:00

(19 March 2007)

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can -- with our help -- avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country's best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

HOUSING IS BACK 01: Architekten beziehen Position zum Wohnungsbau. Mit Beiträgen in dt. u. engl. Sprache

Peter Ebner — 2007-08-09T09:24:22-00:00

(17 January 2006)

Der Wohnungsbau ist auf Grund der massiven Veränderung in den Haushaltsstrukturen und der bewussten Nachfrage nach ökologischem Bauen im Umbruch. Gewünscht sind flexible, nach außen orientierte, ökologische Wohnbauten. Deshalb sind Architekten, ähnlich wie in den 20er Jahren, wieder gefordert, den Wohnungsbau konzeptionell neu zu planen. Die ausgewählten Architekten präsentieren ihre Bauten und deren Konzepte. Das Buch dient allen, die sich mit dem Wohnungswesen beschäftigen, als Inspirationsquelle und zugleich als Nachschlagewerk.

Health Care der Zukunft. Eine Herausforderung für Medizin, Architektur und Ökonomie

Christine Nickl-Weller — 2007-08-08T09:00:05-00:00

Einfuhrung in Die Bauklimatik

Gerhard Hausladen — 2007-08-07T08:44:17-00:00

(01 April 2003)

Energieeffizienz von Gebäuden

Stephan Kohler — 2007-08-07T08:43:06-00:00

Contingent Valuation: Controversies and Evidence

Richard Carson — 2006-10-16T22:41:56-00:00

Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. V19, No. 2. (1 June 2001), pp. 173-210.