Better By Design

Author : Paul L. Knox
Publisher : Virginia Tech Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781949373325

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Better By Design? by Paul L. Knox Pdf

The design professions—architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and urban design—share a great deal in terms of intellectual antecedents, professional ideals, and praxis. In particular, they share a commitment to creating better cities—whether at the scale of buildings, neighborhoods, or city-regions. But who decides what constitutes a “good” city, and how should such an ideal be implemented? In Better by Design? Paul Knox explores the intellectual roots of the design professions, showing how architects, planners, and other designers have traditionally interpreted their roles and implemented their ideas in cities across North America and the UK. Drawing on his long record of research and award-winning publications on the social production of the built environment, Knox offers a critical appraisal of their ultimate effectiveness in achieving the goal of creating and sustaining good cities.

Author : Ayub Khan
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781856046503

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Better by Design by Ayub Khan Pdf

Libraries today are faced with rapidly shifting populations of users with differing needs, who require a range of new communications links that are transforming our concept of the library space. This developing role has created a set of new and complex challenges for those delivering library services. There is no such thing as the 'perfect' library building. However, a well designed building will enable a project both to gain local acceptance more easily and to ease the process of securing planning permission. It also needs to be cost effective to run, support the organization's objectives well, offer an improved service to the user and make an impact on the community. This much-needed book takes as its starting point the fact that few architects know very much about libraries, and fewer librarians know about architectural planning and designing. It steers a clear path for library managers through the language and processes that they need to understand as members of a team overseeing the planning of a new library building project, major refurbishment or remodelling of an existing library. Key topics include: twenty-first century libraries developing a business case project management the design/project team selecting an architect partnership and community engagement the design brief design quality space planning and access occupancy and post-occupancy evaluation building libraries for the future. Appendices offer top tips and checklists, together with a glossary of common terms used within the construction environment to help further de-mystify the design process for librarians. Readership: This practical and accessible book is an invaluable guide not only for new entrants to the library profession, but also for experienced practitioners who are approaching for the first time the important task of creating a new library or major refurbishment of existing facilities. It will also be of great relevance to architects unfamiliar with library building requirements.

Author : Paul Jarvis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445642963

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Lavishly illustrated full-colour story of the development of the internationally renowned British Airways brand, in association with British Airways and full of fascinating images from the British Airways archive

Author : Bob Stewart,Matthew Nicholson,Aaron Smith,Hans Westerbeek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134297818

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Australian Sport - Better by Design? by Bob Stewart,Matthew Nicholson,Aaron Smith,Hans Westerbeek Pdf

Australians have invested an enormous amount of emotional and physical capital in their sporting systems and structures. While Australian sport has many times been dissected from a historical and cultural perspective, there is little detailed analysis of sport's relationship with government. The book focuses on sport policy, and examines the ways in which government has affected the development of Australian sport since 1919. The text identifies the political, economic and cultural context in which policies were set, and examines critical policy shifts. The book also provides a strong theoretical foundation by first discussing the underlying principles of policy formulation, and second, the rationale for government intervention in national sport. It includes a number of sport policy case studies, with particular attention to the following topics: - Elite and Community sport development - Trends in participation and sport fan preferences - Problems in attracting young people to sport participation - Improving the management systems of sporting bodies - Government policy on sport broadcasting - Tools for evaluating sport policy Providing a unique blend of theory, history and practice, this text provides an essential foundation for sport policy analysis and will be read by students of sport studies and sport management as well as professionals with an interest in sport development.

Author : Bill Burnett,Dave Evans
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101875339

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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett,Dave Evans Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183034913772

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416600350

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Understanding by Design by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Author : David K. Cohen,Donald J. Peurach,Joshua L. Glazer,Karen E. Gates,Simona Goldin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226089416

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Improvement by Design by David K. Cohen,Donald J. Peurach,Joshua L. Glazer,Karen E. Gates,Simona Goldin Pdf

One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation’s notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but only a few have succeeded. Improvement by Design looks at three different programs, seeking to understand why two of them—America’s Choice and Success for All—worked, and why the third—Accelerated Schools Project—did not. The authors identify four critical puzzles that the successful programs were able to solve: design, implementation, improvement, and sustainability. Pinpointing the specific solutions that clearly improved instruction, they identify the key elements that all successful reform programs share. Offering urgently needed guidance for state and local school systems as they attempt to respond to future reform proposals, Improvement by Design gets America one step closer to truly successful education systems.

Author : Renu Agarwal,Willem Selen,Göran Roos,Roy Green
Publisher : Springer
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447165903

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The Handbook of Service Innovation by Renu Agarwal,Willem Selen,Göran Roos,Roy Green Pdf

Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service areas, including health, education, tourism, hospitality, telecommunications, and retail. It addresses contemporary issues through conceptual and applied contributions across industry, academia, and government, providing insights for improved practice and policy making. Featuring cutting-edge research contributions, practical examples, implementations and a select number of case studies across several growth service industries, this book also includes examples of failed service innovation attempts in order to demonstrate a balanced view of the topic and to make clear the pitfalls to be avoided. Culminating in a suggested step-by-step guide to enable service organization’s managers to understand and implement the concepts of service innovation and manage its evolutionary processes effectively, this book will prove a valuable resource to a wide reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to create a deeper scientific foundation for service design and engineering, service experience and marketing, and service management and innovation. Includes endorsements from professionals in the field of service innovation.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264080355

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OECD Studies on SMEs and Entrepreneurship SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Innovation by OECD Pdf

This book explores how government policy can boost innovation by improving the environment for entrepreneurship and small firm development and increasing the innovative capacities of enterprises.

Author : Paul Knox
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300277456

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London by Paul Knox Pdf

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council housing, stuccoed Italianate terraces, a Bauhaus-inspired library. But these buildings are not just functional. They are evidence of London’s rich and diverse history and have shaped people’s experiences, identities, and relationships. In this engaging study, Paul L. Knox traces the history of London from the Georgian era to the present day through twenty-five surviving buildings. Knox explores where people lived and worked, from grand Regency squares to Victorian workshops, and highlights the impact of migration, gentrification, and inequality. We see famous buildings, like Harrods and Abbey Road Studios, and everyday places like Rochelle Street School and Thamesmead. Each historical period has introduced new buildings, and old ones have been repurposed. As Knox shows, it is the living history of these buildings that makes up the vibrant, but exceptionally unequal, city of today.

Author : Alex Xu
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798645383572

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System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide by Alex Xu Pdf

The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job interview by many. Those questions are intimidating, but don't worry. It's just that nobody has taken the time to prepare you systematically. We take the time. We go slow. We draw lots of diagrams and use lots of examples. You'll learn step-by-step, one question at a time.Don't miss out.What's inside?- An insider's take on what interviewers really look for and why.- A 4-step framework for solving any system design interview question.- 16 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions.- 188 diagrams to visually explain how different systems work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Infinity Publishing (PA)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1495830500

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Culture by Design by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0674463684

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Invention by Design by Henry Petroski Pdf

Petroski delves deep into the mystery of invention, to explore what everyday artifacts and sophisticated networks can reveal about the way engineers solve problems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Health facilities
ISBN : 0113217579

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Better by Design by Anonim Pdf

Mammoth hospitals, built like dreary office blocks on a devastatingly functional basis, depress the spirits, however good the care is, so said HRH The Prince of Wales.