Jeffrey S Nesbit

Ground Control

A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA's Space Complex

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex and offers a new way of understanding how technological uses of place-based science were designed and constructed in support of both industrial and military activities in postwar America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781032770031
• ISBN-10: 1032770031
• Artikelnr.: 70150725

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design. Nesbit is currently Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at Temple University, and previously taught at several institutions, including Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of North Carolina Charlotte, University of New Mexico, and Texas Tech University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Space Complex 2. Interiority and the Vision of Power
3. Speed and the Image of Rationality 4. Enclosure and the Garden in the
Machine 5. Redundancy and the Administrative Apparatus 6. Range and the
Recovery Capsule 7. Earthmoving and the Endless Frontier