Infrastructures In Practice
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Infrastructures In Practice
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Author : Elizabeth Shove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Infrastructures In Practice written by Elizabeth Shove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with City planning categories.
Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible - at the same time, their design and day-to-day operation depends on what people do at home and at work. This volume investigates the entanglement of supply and demand. It explains how standards and 'normal' ways of living have changed over time and how infrastructures have changed with them. Studies of grid expansion and disruption, heating systems, the internet, urban planning and office standards, smart meters and demand management reveal this dynamic interdependence. This is the first book to examine the interdependence between infrastructures and the practices of daily life. It offers an analysis of how new technologies, lifestyles and standards become normalised and fall out of use. It brings together diverse disciplines - history, sociology, science studies - to develop social theories and accounts of how infrastructures and practices constitute each other at different scales and over time. It shows how networks and demands are steered and shaped, and how social and political visions are woven into infrastructures, past, present and future. Original, wide-ranging and theoretically informed, this book puts the many practices of daily life back into the study of infrastructures. The result is a fresh understanding of how resource-intensive forms of consumption and energy demand have come about and what is needed to move towards a more sustainable lower carbon future.
Infrastructures In Practice
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Author : Elizabeth Shove
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-17
Infrastructures In Practice written by Elizabeth Shove and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-17 with Social Science categories.
Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible – at the same time, their design and day-to-day operation depends on what people do at home and at work. This volume investigates the entanglement of supply and demand. It explains how standards and 'normal' ways of living have changed over time and how infrastructures have changed with them. Studies of grid expansion and disruption, heating systems, the internet, urban planning and office standards, smart meters and demand management reveal this dynamic interdependence. This is the first book to examine the interdependence between infrastructures and the practices of daily life. It offers an analysis of how new technologies, lifestyles and standards become normalised and fall out of use. It brings together diverse disciplines – history, sociology, science studies – to develop social theories and accounts of how infrastructures and practices constitute each other at different scales and over time. It shows how networks and demands are steered and shaped, and how social and political visions are woven into infrastructures, past, present and future. Original, wide-ranging and theoretically informed, this book puts the many practices of daily life back into the study of infrastructures. The result is a fresh understanding of how resource-intensive forms of consumption and energy demand have come about and what is needed to move towards a more sustainable lower carbon future.
Residential Architecture As Infrastructure
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Author : Stephen H. Kendall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Residential Architecture As Infrastructure written by Stephen H. Kendall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Architecture categories.
This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies and business activities in Open Building around the world. Countless residential Open Building projects have been built in a number of countries, some without knowledge of the original theory and methods. These projects differ in architectural style, building industry methods, economic system and social aims. National building standards and guidelines have been promulgated in several countries (Finland, China, Japan, Korea), providing incentives and guidance to Open Building implementation. Businesses in several countries have begun to deliver advanced FIT-OUT systems both for new construction and for retrofitting existing buildings, demonstrating the economic advantages of ‘the responsive, independent dwelling.’ This book also argues that the ‘open building’ approach is essential for the reactivation of the existing building stock for long-term value, because in the end it costs less. The book discusses these developments in residential architecture from the perspective of an infrastructure model of built environment. This model enables decision-makers to manage risk and uncertainty, while avoiding a number of problems often associated with large, fast-moving projects, such as separation and distribution of design tasks (and responsibility) and the ensuing boundary frictions. Residential Architecture as Infrastructure adds to the Routledge Open Building Series, and will appeal to architects, urban designers, researchers and policy-makers interested in this international review of current projects, policies and business activities focused on Open Building implementation.
Learning Across Sites
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Author : Sten Ludvigsen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-04
Learning Across Sites written by Sten Ludvigsen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This book brings together a diverse range of contributions from leading international researchers, to examine the impacts and roles which evolving digital technologies have on our navigation of education and professional work environments.
Python And Terraform Infrastructure As Code Standards And Practices
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language : en
Publisher: jideon francisco marques
Release Date : 2024-02-23
Python And Terraform Infrastructure As Code Standards And Practices written by and has been published by jideon francisco marques this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-23 with Computers categories.
How this book is organized: A roadmap I organized this book into three sections with 13 chapters. Part 1 introduces IaC and how you, as an individual, write it. • Chapter 1 defines IaC and its benefits and principles. The chapter explains that the book has examples in Python, run by HashiCorp Terraform, and deployed to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I also discuss the tools and use cases you’ll encounter in your IaC journey. • Chapter 2 dives into the principle of immutability and how you can migrate existing infrastructure resources to IaC. It also covers the practices of writing clean IaC. • Chapter 3 offers a few patterns for dividing and grouping infrastructure resources into modules. Each pattern includes an example and a list of use cases. • Chapter 4 covers how to manage dependencies among infrastructure resources and modules and decouple them with dependency injection and some common patterns. Part 2 describes how to write and collaborate on IaC as a team. • Chapter 5 organizes the practices and considerations for expressing IaC in different repository structures and sharing it across your team. • Chapter 6 provides an infrastructure testing strategy. It describes each type of test and how to write them for IaC. • Chapter 7 applies continuous delivery to IaC. It covers a high-level view of branching models and how your team can use them to change infrastructure. • Chapter 8 provides techniques to build secure and compliant IaC, including testing and tagging. Part 3 covers how to manage IaC across your company. • Chapter 9 applies immutability to infrastructure changes, including an example for blue-green deployments. • Chapter 10 refactors a large body of IaC to improve its maintainability and mitigate the blast radius of failed changes to one codebase. • Chapter 11 describes reverting IaC and rolling forward changes to the system. • Chapter 12 addresses the use of IaC to manage cloud computing costs. It includes an example for cost estimation of IaC. • Chapter 13 completes the book with practices to manage and update IaC tools. You will find that many concepts build on each other throughout the book, and it may help to read the chapters in order if you have not previously practiced IaC. Otherwise, you can choose the sections that best apply to the challenges you face in your IaC practice.
Healthcare Architecture As Infrastructure
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Author : Stephen H. Kendall
language : en
Publisher: Open Building
Release Date : 2019
Healthcare Architecture As Infrastructure written by Stephen H. Kendall and has been published by Open Building this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Health facilities categories.
Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices. This calls into question the traditional ways in which these facilities are designed. If functions and practices are subject to alteration, the standard approach of defining required functions and practices before acquiring facilities is obsolete. We need other starting points, working methods, and ways of collaborating. Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure presents these new approaches. Advocating an infrastructure theory of built environment transformation in which design and investment decisions are organized hierarchically and transcend short-term use, the book draws the practice and research of a number of architects from around the world. Written by experts with experience in policy making, designing, building, and managing complex healthcare environments, it shows professionals in architecture, engineering, healthcare and facilities management how to enhance the long-term usefulness of their campuses and their building stock and how to strengthen their physical assets with the capacity to accommodate a quickly evolving healthcare sector.
The Promise Of Infrastructure
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Author : Nikhil Anand
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-16
The Promise Of Infrastructure written by Nikhil Anand and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-16 with Social Science categories.
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
Citizenship And Infrastructure
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Author : Charlotte Lemanski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019
Citizenship And Infrastructure written by Charlotte Lemanski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Science categories.
This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship. It demonstrates the ways in which adopting an 'infrastructural citizenship' lens illuminates a broader understanding of the material and civic nature of urban life for both citizens and the state. Drawing on examples of housing, water, electricity and sanitation across Africa and Asia, chapters reveal the ways in which exploring citizenship through an infrastructural lens, and infrastructure through a citizenship lens, allows us to better understand, plan and govern city life. The book emphasises the importance of acknowledging and understanding the dialectic relationship between infrastructure and citizenship for urban theory and practice. This book will be a useful resource for researchers and students within Urban Studies, Geography, Development Studies, Planning, Politics, Architecture and Sociology.
Identifying Quantifying And Proving Loss Of Productivity
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Author : American Society of Civil Engineers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Identifying Quantifying And Proving Loss Of Productivity written by American Society of Civil Engineers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Building failures categories.
"MOP 144 provides guidance and underlying framework for creating consistency across hazards, systems, and sectors in the design of new infrastructure systems and in enhancing the resilience of existing ones"--
The Evaluation Of Complex Infrastructure Projects
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Author : Lasse Gerrits
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Evaluation Of Complex Infrastructure Projects written by Lasse Gerrits and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Construction projects categories.
Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of projects but have little to say about their details, or they focus on detailed single-case studies with little in terms of applicability elsewhere. This book presents Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an alternative evaluation method that solves the conundrum to enhance learning.