Consider a manufacturer like Brian Thomson. His company designs and manufactures a high-end line of bicycle parts. Their collections cycle starts when they buy raw materials to produce their parts and continues until three to four ...
Amongst the first to argue in any systematic and critical fashion for a network model to understand the urban were Hohenberg and Lees (1985), who suggested that the historical development of European urbanism might in some ways be ...
How are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? This pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the communicative practices this labor requires.
The first single-author volume ever written on the subject of geographical scale, this book provides a unique overview in pushing understandings of scale in new and original directions.
"Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks.
Structured thematically in three parts, this book addresses various issues of scale. The book includes an introduction which sets the scene in terms of current architectural discourse and also contains a visual essay in each section.
As they drew closer, Kinsley whipped her tail back and forth excitedly. ... From atop Kinsley, I could see clearly that all twenty-three dragons were carrying at least one to four dragons trapped in their human form.
"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of ...