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House that Jack Built: An Agenda for the Assessment of the Technologies of the Built Environment
The term built environment connotes the things that people have constructed, distinct from natural environments. The technologies employed in the built environment are being assessed to learn how these technologies affect people, not only in first order effects (a tall building enables placing a large number of people on a small land area) but also second and higher order effects (the presence of the building creates a need for transportation, water, sewer, food supply, police and fire protection systems, and strongly influences residential patterns and the location of other buildings). It is also of interest to determine the effects of introducing technologies not commonly used in the built environment. Of particular significance in assessing the built environment is that, at any point in time, nearly all of the built environment was constructed by people of preceding generations. A very high percentage of all the built environment, including buildings, supporting facilities, and most of the basic structures, such as roads, water lines, power plants, and industries, that will be in use a generation hence is already in place. Therefore, the built environment has tremendous inertia that is in conflict with the rate of change that characterizes present society. Thirty-two technologies which are considered to be among the most significant to U.S. society and for which there is considerable uncertainty about their effects are reviewed.
House that Jack Built: An Agenda for the Assessment of the Technologies of the Built Environment
The term built environment connotes the things that people have constructed, distinct from natural environments. The technologies employed in the built environment are being assessed to learn how these technologies affect people, not only in first order effects (a tall building enables placing a large number of people on a small land area) but also second and higher order effects (the presence of the building creates a need for transportation, water, sewer, food supply, police and fire protection systems, and strongly influences residential patterns and the location of other buildings). It is also of interest to determine the effects of introducing technologies not commonly used in the built environment. Of particular significance in assessing the built environment is that, at any point in time, nearly all of the built environment was constructed by people of preceding generations. A very high percentage of all the built environment, including buildings, supporting facilities, and most of the basic structures, such as roads, water lines, power plants, and industries, that will be in use a generation hence is already in place. Therefore, the built environment has tremendous inertia that is in conflict with the rate of change that characterizes present society. Thirty-two technologies which are considered to be among the most significant to U.S. society and for which there is considerable uncertainty about their effects are reviewed.
House that Jack Built: An Agenda for the Assessment of the Technologies of the Built Environment
R. J. L. Martin (author) / G. E. Willeke (author)
1978
302 pages
Report
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English
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| UB Braunschweig | 1878
| UB Braunschweig | 1878