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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262357005
Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local. Resilience now matters most, and most resilience is local—even for that most universal, foundational modern resource: the electric power grid. Today that technological marvel is changing more rapidly than it has for a lifetime, and in our new grid awareness, community microgrids have become a fascinating catalyst for cultural value change. In Downtime on the Microgrid , Malcolm McCullough offers a thoughtful counterpoint to the cascade of white papers on smart clean infrastructure. Writing from an experiential perspective, McCullough avoids the usual smart city futurism, technological solutionism, policy acronyms, green idealism, critical theory jargon, and doomsday prepping to provide new cultural context for a subject long a favorite theme in science and technology studies. McCullough describes the three eras of North American electrification: innovation, consolidation, and decentralization. He considers the microgrid boom and its relevance to the built environment as “architecture's grid edge.” Finally, he argues that resilience arises from clusters; although a microgrid is often described as an island, future resilience will require archipelagos—clusters of microgrids, with a two-way, intermittent connectiveness that is very different from the always-on, top-down technofuture we may be expecting. With Downtime on the Microgrid, McCullough rises above techno-hype to find something good about the smart city and reassuring about local resilience.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11953.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262357005
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12168.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262356350
An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. The laboratory building is as significant to the twenty-first century as the cathedral was to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contemporary science laboratory is built at the grand scales of cathedrals and constitutes as significant an architectural statement. The laboratory is a serious investment in architectural expression in an attempt to persuade us of the value of the science that goes on inside. In this lavishly illustrated book, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Chris L. Smith explore the architecture of modern life science laboratories, and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. Looking at the varied designs of eleven important laboratories in North America, Europe, and Australia, all built between 2005 and 2019, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith examine the relationship between the design of contemporary laboratory buildings and the ideas and ideologies of science. Observing that every laboratory architect and client declares the same three aspirations—to eliminate boundaries, to communicate the benefits of its research programs, and to foster collaboration—Kaji-O'Grady and Smith organize their account according to the themes of boundaries, expression, and socialization. For instance, they point to the South Australian Health and Medical Institute's translucent envelope as the material equivalent of institutional accountability; the insistent animal imagery of the NavarraBioMed laboratory in Spain; and the Hillside Research Campus's mimicry of the picturesque fishing village that once occupied its site. Through these and their other examples, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith show how the architecture of the laboratory shapes the science that takes place within it.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12168.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262356350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12168.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262356350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12168.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262356350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12168.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262356350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
EISBN: 9780262356350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12168.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262356350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 December 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12168.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262356350