ISBN:
128308581X
,
9781283085816
,
9789048199204
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (lxxi, 2266 p)
,
ill
Parallel Title:
Print version Engineering Earth
DDC:
620
Keywords:
Engineering
;
Engineering Data processing
Abstract:
This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many mega projects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneerin
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I Introduction; 1 Introduction to Megaengineering: The Concept and a Research Frontier; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Three Major Foci; 1.3 Organization of the Volume; 1.4 Specific Topics Awaiting Research; 1.5 Themes for Collaborative Research; References; 2 Building the Next Seven Wonders: The Landscape Rhetoric of Large Engineering Projects; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Reading the Cultural Landscape of Megaengineering; 2.3 Landscape Messages of Engineering Projects; 2.4 Landscapes of ""The Seven Wonders""
Description / Table of Contents:
2.5 Seven Wonders of Megaengineering2.6 Evolving Meanings Within Megaengineering; 2.7 Conclusion; References; Part II GIS, ICTs and K-Economies; 3 Information Technology as Megaengineering: The Impact of GIS; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Cyberinfrastructure; 3.3 The Geospatial Technologies; 3.3.1 Overview; 3.3.2 Development Directions; 3.4 The Impacts of Geospatial Megaengineering; 3.5 Conclusions; References; 4 Google and the Internet: A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Essence of the Internet as a Megaproject
Description / Table of Contents:
4.3 The Evolution of the Internet and its Implications4.4 Google as a Megaproject; 4.5 Google's Nesting Within the Internet: A Model of Virtual Megaproject Nesting; 4.5.1 Nesting Phase I: Search Monopoly 1997--2000; 4.5.2 Nesting Phase II: 2000--2002 Search as a Business: Google's Universalism and Market Conquest; 4.5.3 Nesting Phase III 2003--2006 Indispensability and Ubiquity: Google Enables, Goes Local, at Our Home, and Goes Mobile; 4.5.4 Nesting Phase IV 2007Google as Superpower? Universal Technocracy Potential Versus the Traditional State; 4.6 Conclusion; References
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Cloud Collaboration: Peer-Production and the Engineering of the internet5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Construction in the Cloud; 5.2.1 Social Spaces; 5.2.2 Content Spaces; 5.2.3 Cosmographies; 5.3 Characteristics of the Cloud; 5.4 Cloud Collaboration; 5.5 Conclusions; Notes; References; 6 Engineering Community and Place: Facebook as Megaengineering; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Facebook's Mega Audience; 6.3 Engineering Virtual Spaces; 6.4 Using Virtual Spaces to Engineer Place-Based Community; 6.5 Social Networking and Facebook; 6.6 Engineering Place and Community with Facebook
Description / Table of Contents:
6.7 Facebooks Role in Transforming the Earth6.8 Few-to-Many Engineering; 6.9 Conclusion; References; 7 Real-Time National Stability Engineering: Mapping the 2009 Afghan Election; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Historical Background; 7.3 Taj Project Background; 7.4 Camp Roberts Exercise; 7.5 Field Deployment for the Afghanistan Elections; 7.6 Conclusion; References; 8 Engineering Time and Space with the Global Fiber Optics Industry; 8.1 A Brief Historical Overview of Fiber Optics; 8.2 Theorizing the Growth of Fiber-Based Capitalism; 8.3 Urban Geographies of Fiber Optics
Description / Table of Contents:
8.4 Geographies of Global Fiber Optics Networks
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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