| Author | : Jennifer L. Roberts |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2014-01-17 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0520251849 |
"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
Mobility First
| Author | : Sam Staley |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
Mobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.
Mirror-travels
| Author | : Jennifer L. Roberts |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300094978 |
Offering a critical analysis of Smithson's view of time, it provides comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential projects: "The Monuments of Passaic," a sardonic tour of a decaying New Jersey city conducted in the wake of the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act; "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan," a textual-sculptural-photographic travelogue that coincided with a series of revolutionary discoveries about Maya history; and the Spiral Jetty."--BOOK JACKET.
Changing Lanes
| Author | : Joseph F. DiMento |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0262018586 |
The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects -- with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.
A Vision of Future Space Transportation
| Author | : Tim McElyea |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781896522937 |
The glorious Space Age has come and gone. So what's next now? This book is a guide of future space transportation concepts. From Earth-to-Orbit to in-space transportation, you will sample what is being considered and get an easy-to -understand explanation of what spacecraft will do and how it will work.
Expanded Visions
| Author | : Arnd Schneider |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Art and anthropology |
| ISBN | : 9780367253684 |
Expanded visions -- Experimenting with film, art and ethnography: Oppitz, Downey, Lockhart -- Rethinking anthropological researh and representation through experimental film -- Stills that move: photohilm and anthropology -- On the set of a cinema movie in a Mapuche reservation -- A black box for participatory cinema: movie making with "neighbors" in Saladillo, Argentina -- An anthropology of abandon: art--ethnography in the films of Cyrill Lachauer -- Can film restitute? Expanded moving image visions for museum objects in the times of decolony.
Voyages and Visions
| Author | : Jaś Elsner |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781861890207 |
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Road to Nowhere
| Author | : Paris Marx |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2022-07-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1839765917 |
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them ‘green’; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous. As Paris Marx shows, these technological visions are a threat to our ideas of what a society should be. Electric cars are not a silver bullet for sustainability, and autonomous vehicles won’t guarantee road safety. There will not be underground tunnels to eliminate traffic congestion, and micromobility services will not replace car travel any sooner than we will see the arrival of the long-awaited flying car. In response, Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of organizing transportation systems that considers the needs of poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people. The book argues that rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of how we design and live in our future cities. We must create streets that allow for social interaction and conviviality. We need reasons to get out of our cars and to use public means of transit determined by community needs rather than algorithmic control. Such decisions should be guided by the search for quality of life rather than for profit.
Computer Vision and Imaging in Intelligent Transportation Systems
| Author | : Robert P. Loce |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2017-11-08 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1118971639 |
Acts as single source reference providing readers with an overview of how computer vision can contribute to the different applications in the field of road transportation This book presents a survey of computer vision techniques related to three key broad problems in the roadway transportation domain: safety, efficiency, and law enforcement. The individual chapters present significant applications within those problem domains, each presented in a tutorial manner, describing the motivation for and benefits of the application, and a description of the state of the art. Key features: Surveys the applications of computer vision techniques to road transportation system for the purposes of improving safety and efficiency and to assist law enforcement. Offers a timely discussion as computer vision is reaching a point of being useful in the field of transportation systems. Available as an enhanced eBook with video demonstrations to further explain the concepts discussed in the book, as well as links to publically available software and data sets for testing and algorithm development. The book will benefit the many researchers, engineers and practitioners of computer vision, digital imaging, automotive and civil engineering working in intelligent transportation systems. Given the breadth of topics covered, the text will present the reader with new and yet unconceived possibilities for application within their communities.
