Sherry Mckay, Annalisa Meyboom

Design Capital (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden Value of Design in Infrastructure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Design Capital offers strategies and tools for justifying public spending on design considerations in infrastructure projects. Beautifully designed infrastructure brings social value that far exceeds its initial construction expenditure. With this book, designers can make a stronger case for the value of design in public infrastructure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000605617
• Artikelnr.: 64163013

Autorenporträt

Sherry McKay has a PhD in architectural history from the University of British Columbia and is Professor Emerita in the School of Architecture and Landscape at the University of British Columbia and the inaugural Chair of the architecture program in SALA (2006-09). She served as book review editor for Building Research & Information, UK and co-editor of the West Coast Modern House Series. Recently published is "West Coast Land Claims," a chapter in Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the Present.

AnnaLisa Meyboom is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA). Her research interrogates future applications of technology in the design of our built environment. She holds a degree in engineering from University of Waterloo and a Masters of Architecture from the University of British Columbia. She designs and writes about future infrastructures and the use of advanced digital tools in the design and fabrication of architectural form.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Design and Other Forms of Capital
3. Infrastructure in Context: Globalization and Gentrification
4. Infrastructure in Context: Placemaking
5. The Economics of Design Capital
6. Creating Design Capital
7. Creating Design Capital: Learning from Architecture
8. Case Studies: Small Scale
9. Case Studies: Medium Scale
10. Case Studies: Large Scale