Author: Christopher Masahiko Moyer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Amid soaring home prices caused by rampant speculation in high-cost cities like Cambridge, middle-income households are being squeezed harder than ever. Faced with a housing market structured around binaries between renting/owning and market-rate/affordable housing (income- and price-restricted), middle-income households are left with increasingly few options. Neither private developers nor public-sector entities currently serve their needs. Limited-equity cooperatives (LECs) move beyond these binaries. LECs provide a form of self-governed housing, incorporating elements of renting and owning, designed for permanent affordability with limited wealth building via economic sharing. But LECs also facilitate social and spatial sharing through practices (collective decision making, shared meals, and childcare help) enabled by architecture (open space, common kitchen, and play facilities). LECs can thus endow residents with the benefits of collective control, affordability, and social support through the combination of decommodification and architectural design. LECs have existed in the United States for over a century. Apart from a few local exceptions, however, the model has never been scaled for a middle-income clientele, due to a lack of financial and institutional support. "Building on a literature review of US housing history and interviews with residents, policy makers, and developers, ""Expanding Architectures of Sharing"" argues that LECs can again serve middle-income households if institutions with the financial means and development expertise collaborate. Specifically, this thesis focuses on the healthcare industry and public housing authorities and imagines the following scenario: Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association union petition the Cambridge Health Alliance, which has been hard pressed to hire staff due to exorbitant housing prices, to offer its surface level parking lot on Line Street for development; The Cambridge Housing Authority is focused on low-income rental housing, but is driven by an entrepreneurial spirit to broaden its impact; A joint venture between the two CHAs provides the financial and institutional support necessary to build a new mixed-use LEC, developed and managed by the Housing Authority." By embracing the interrelated tenets of economic, social and spatial sharing, the LEC provides a living environment not possible in either market-rate or traditional affordable developments. Organized around four distinct open spaces, the project combines a rental building for hospital interns and a cooperative building for an array of household sizes and incomes. A daycare, retail spaces, and below-grade parking offer public uses. The proposal reveals the untapped opportunity of institutions and housing authorities to expand architectures of sharing through middle-income LECs.
Author: Bryan Bell Publisher: ISBN: 9781933045788 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al.
Author: J. Meejin Yoon Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568988665 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 216
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Rising stars in Boston's design scene, architects Eric Howeler and J. Meejin Yoon have in a single decade developed a reputation for radical experiments in architectural form. Their design methodology--what they call an "expanded practice"--combines intense research with interdisciplinary experimentation. Howeler and Yoon's sensational, competition-winning lighting entry for the 2004 Athens Olympics exemplifies their fearless approach: without any prior experience in public space interactive design, the firm constructed a luminous, interactive soundscape installation at the base of the Acropolis. White Noise White Light featured a field of semiflexible fiber-optic strands that emitted white light and white noise in response to the movement of pedestrians. The project, an enormous success, enchanted a multitude of visitors who moved amidst the cilia of light. Expanded Practice presents twenty-nine recent projects by this young firm encompassing a broad range of scales and media. The projects, divided into distinct but often overlapping research themes, include a museum courtyard program inspired by the Voronoi cell-packing algorithm (PS1 Loop); an outdoor light installation featuring hovering cones that capture and interact with solar energy, rainwater, and sound (Hover); a garment designed to turn inside out as it unravels (Mobius Dress); and a landscape design that weaves technology and texture into an integrated and interactive landscape (Tripanel). Packed with drawings, diagrams, and photographs of each project's design process, Expanded Practice provides an inspirational look into one of the most exciting young firms working in architecture today.
Author: Neal Ford Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc." ISBN: 1491986328 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 217
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The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time.
Author: Tom Shanley Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN: 9780201409963 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 550
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Intro to microprocessor communications - Introduction to the bus cycle - Addressing I/0 and memory - The address decode logic - The 80286 microprocessor - The reset logic - The power-up sequence - The 80286 system kernel : the engine - Detailed view of the 80286 bus cycle - The 80386 DX and SX microprocessors - The 80386 system kernel - Detailed view of the 80386 bus cycles - RAM memory : theory of operation - Cache memory concepts - ROM memory - ISA bus structure - Types of ISA bus cycles - The interrupt subsystem - Direct memory access (DMA) - ISA bus masters - RTC and configuration RAM - Keyboard/mouse interface - Numeric coprocessor - ISA timers.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 122
Author: Karim Abbas Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031086937 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 439
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This book uses digital radios as a challenging design example, generalized to bridge a typical gap between designers who work on algorithms and those who work to implement those algorithms on silicon. The author shows how such a complex system can be moved from high-level characterization to a form that is ready for hardware implementation. Along the way, readers learn a lot about how algorithm designers can benefit from knowing the hardware they target and how hardware designers can benefit from a familiarity with the algorithm. The book shows how a high-level description of an algorithm can be migrated to a fixed-point block diagram with a well-defined cycle accurate architecture and a fully documented controller. This can significantly reduce the length of the hardware design cycle and can improve its outcomes. Ultimately, the book presents an explicit design flow that bridges the gap between algorithm design and hardware design. Provides a guide to baseband radio design for Wi-Fi and cellular systems, from an implementation-focused, perspective; Explains how arithmetic is moved to hardware and what the cost of each operation is in terms of delay, area and power; Enables strategic architectural decisions based on the algorithm, available processing units and design requirements.
Author: Constantinos B. Papadias Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119551471 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 456
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Combines the latest trends in spectrum sharing, both from a research and a standards/regulation/experimental standpoint Written by noted professionals from academia, industry, and research labs, this unique book provides a comprehensive treatment of the principles and architectures for spectrum sharing in order to help with the existing and future spectrum crunch issues. It presents readers with the most current standardization trends, including CEPT / CEE, eLSA, CBRS, MulteFire, LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U), LTE WLAN integration with Internet Protocol security tunnel (LWIP), and LTE/Wi-Fi aggregation (LWA), and offers substantial trials and experimental results, as well as system-level performance evaluation results. The book also includes a chapter focusing on spectrum policy reinforcement and another on the economics of spectrum sharing. Beginning with the historic form of cognitive radio, Spectrum Sharing: The Next Frontier in Wireless Networks continues with current standardized forms of spectrum sharing, and reviews all of the technical ingredients that may arise in spectrum sharing approaches. It also looks at policy and implementation aspects and ponders the future of the field. White spaces and data base-assisted spectrum sharing are discussed, as well as the licensed shared access approach and cooperative communication techniques. The book also covers reciprocity-based beam forming techniques for spectrum sharing in MIMO networks; resource allocation for shared spectrum networks; large scale wireless spectrum monitoring; and much more. Contains all the latest standardization trends, such as CEPT / ECC, eLSA, CBRS, MulteFire, LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U), LTE WLAN integration with Internet Protocol security tunnel (LWIP) and LTE/Wi-Fi aggregation (LWA) Presents a number of emerging technologies for future spectrum sharing (collaborative sensing, cooperative communication, reciprocity-based beamforming, etc.), as well as novel spectrum sharing paradigms (e.g. in full duplex and radar systems) Includes substantial trials and experimental results, as well as system-level performance evaluation results Contains a dedicated chapter on spectrum policy reinforcement and one on the economics of spectrum sharing Edited by experts in the field, and featuring contributions by respected professionals in the field world wide Spectrum Sharing: The Next Frontier in Wireless Networks is highly recommended for graduate students and researchers working in the areas of wireless communications and signal processing engineering. It would also benefit radio communications engineers and practitioners.
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