By Eran Ben-Joseph, Terry S. Szold
ISBN-10: 0203998030
ISBN-13: 9780203998038
ISBN-10: 0415948754
ISBN-13: 9780415948753
Tracing how codes arose once they did, and the way they have been tailored through the years, the authors learn the expanding impact of regulatory codes over city layout and making plans some time past century.
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57 It is equally hard to focus on an elite that rejected urban living because reforms restricted most tightly in cities. 58 Did the standard bearers rise from the ranks of the threatened and become the vanguard of a still unrecognized group that used the creating of standards as a tool of self-advancement? Who fled from the reformers, and who simply ignored them? What Mann discussed easily in the middle 1950s nowadays strikes sparks in any milieu. Ask graduate students to profile those people news media call “welfare advocates” and students quickly discern the close connection between advocacy and salary maintenance.
Engineers who know about such matters on an urban scale rarely speak for the record. For general background, see David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880—1940 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990). “Haunted Restaurant,” Literary Digest 78 (August 11, 1923): 25. “Electric Dangers,” Literary Digest 46 (March 1, 1913): 352—353. Charles M. Carpenter and Albert B. Page, “The Production of Fever in Man by Short Wave Radio,” Science 71 (May 2, 1930): 450—452. See, for example, Seth Schulman, “Cancer Risks Seen in Electro-Magnetic Fields” Nature 345 (June 7, 1990): 463; Simon Best, “Electromagnetic Cover-Up,” The Ecologist 21 (January, 1991): 33—38.
More significantly, the designs transcend pornography to express ideals beyond the practiced capacity of most people familiar with standardized design. Such designs include those by landscape architects momentarily ignoring the Americans with Disabilities Act and exploring the use of stairs along steep seacoasts and riverbanks. They include architects’ drawings of public structures tiered without regard for ADA guidelines, elevator regulations, fire-escape routes, and lighting standards, but all assuming occupants agile enough to escape through windows in emergencies.