This text is designed to be used on its own, or as a companion volume to the accompanying American Cities and Technology Reader. Chronologically, this volume ranges from 1790, when the first US census reported 5 percent of the population living in urban areas, to 1990, when 75 percent of the American population lived in urban areas. Geographically, its focus is the continental USA.
This text is designed to be used on its own, or as a companion volume to the accompanying American Cities and Technology Reader. Chronologically, this...
This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.
Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th century. They have sought not just to imitate the forms of plants and animals, but to find methods in design analogous to the processes of growth and evolution in nature....
This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, esp...
Tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. This book examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers h
Tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially build...
