Search results for “[Subject: infrastructure]”

• Author(s): Silvia Danielak • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations. Roads,...

• Author(s): Hillary Brown | Byron Stigge • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing ...

• Author(s): Sybil Derrible • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyA textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, envir...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Pomerantz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Weights & MeasuresAn engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern w...

• Author(s): Brian Kahin | Ernest J. Wilson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralNational Information Infrastructure Initiatives includes adozen case studies analyzing how national-level policy initiatives address...

• Author(s): Dietmar Offenhuber | Carlo Ratti • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsThe relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three...

• Author(s): Christopher R. Henke • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralAn investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure re...

• Author(s): Theresa Enright • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentA critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the build...

• Author(s): Deborah Hurley | James H. Keller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyThe growth of the Internet has been propelled in significant part by user investment in infrastructure: computers, ...

• Author(s): Keller Easterling • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: LandscapeBridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkage...

• Author(s): Megan Finn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, ...

• Author(s): Ashley Carse • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryA historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal. In t...

• Author(s): David Ribes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Research & MethodologyAn examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic ch...

• Author(s): Aure Schrock • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively im...

• Author(s): Katayoun Shafiee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arra...

• Author(s): Kazys Varnelis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyHow maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday lif...

• Author(s): Sebastian Giessmann • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into...

• Author(s): Mark Stuart Day | C. A. Jennings • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and ot...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Nikki Luke • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Power Resources - ElectricalHow workers and customers engage utility regulation to act on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and ...

• Author(s): James C. O'Connell | Albert LaFarge • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban spr...

• Author(s): Jordan Frith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world. RFID (Radi...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Rahul Mukherjee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow telecom companies in India have added a whole new group of mobile phone users--and the tremendous impact of this new reach. Around 2016, buoyed...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): George Hoberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHow organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure became a political force, and how this might affect the trans...

• Author(s): William S. Strong • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Intellectual Property - CopyrightAn accessible and comprehensive guide to copyright law, updated to include new developme...

• Author(s): Dirk Van Laak • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: InfrastructureA comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives. Infrastructure is essential to...

• Author(s): Jennifer Holt • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyHow the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data--together understood as...

• Author(s): Robert M. Townsend • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralAn economic analysis of what distributed ledgers can do, examining key components and discussing applications in both developed and em...

• Author(s): Jacob Ward • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: TelecommunicationsWhy the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer developm...

• Author(s): Wayne De Fremery • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Cataloging & ClassificationAn expansive case for bibliography as infrastructure in information science. Cats, Car...

• Author(s): Anne Kaun • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesHow prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies. Prisons are not typically known for ...

• Author(s): Aron Vinegar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsA theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions. Subj...

• Author(s): Dylan Mulvin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the futur...

• Author(s): Andres Luque-Ayala • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentA new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the ...