| Description |
xiv, 321 pages : illustrations,plans,portraits ; 25cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword Martin Pawley. -- Chapter 1. An industry that barely deserves the term. -- 1.1 Construction becomes a mainstream political issue. -- 1.2 Progress, but only of a sort. -- 1.3 Local small firms do up existing homes ? and always work on site. -- 1.4 Illegal, cursed and DIY. -- 1.5 Arise, Sir John Egan. -- 1.6 Backward thinking in municipal strategy. -- 1.7 Construction, risk and the wider crisis in capitalist innovation. -- Chapter 2. Backward perspectives: measurement, therapy, naturalism. -- 2.1 The reduction of strategy to measurement. -- 2.2 Campaigns for safety and against cowboys. -- 2.3 Respecters of health, enemies of stress. -- 2.4 The mantra of teamwork. -- 2.5 Government buildings pioneer design as social engineering. -- 2.6 New Labour?s sustainabl e communities. -- 2.7 The messianic approach. -- 2.8 Built-up brownfields forever. -- 2.9 Out-of-date theories of urbanisation. -- 2.10 Out-of-date theories of Britain?s green and pleasant land. -- 2.11 Key worker housing and the microflat mentality. -- 2.12 Longevity and the Royal Institute of British Architects. -- 2.13 Therapeutic and naturalistic perspectives meet in proximity. -- 2.14 The Holy Trinity in architecture. -- Chapter 3. Backward practice: the regulation of urban districts, workplaces and the environment. -- 3.1 Urban innovation as Business Improvement Districts. -- 3.2 Innovation in the law around workplace health and business continuity. -- 3.3 Innovation in the law around the environment. -- 3.4 Quango quagmire: the ceaseless re-branding of Britain?s building regulators. -- 3.5 Power in the building trade. -- Chapter 4. Architecture versus Building in the 1960s housing boom; -- Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius. -- 4.1 Industrialisation in post-war architectural perspective. -- 4.2 Experiments in systems building in the 1950s and early 1960s. -- 4.3 The reality of post-war mass production. -- 4.4 State patrons of private-sector builders. -- 4.5 The end of the boom. -- Chapter 5. False innovation and real innovation. -- 5.1 Buildings as brands. -- 5.2 The new prefabrication. -- 5.3 Not fearing materials, but doing more with them and about them. -- 5.4 Not fearing energy use, but getting it in proportion. -- 5.5 Face time, playing with virtual space, and monkeying with CAD. -- 5.6 Organising wider aspects of IT to live up to their full potential. -- 5.7 When teams model buildings in 3D Richard McWilliams. -- 5.8 The cultural climate impeding technological innovation. -- Chapter 6. To take human achievement seriously. -- 6.1 Holding the line against the reaction to 9-11. -- 6.2 How construction can catch up. -- 6.3 Conclusion. -- Chapter 7. Biographies. -- 7.1 Ian Abley. -- 7.2 Miles Glendinning. -- 7.3 Richard McWilliams. -- 7.4 Clare Morris. -- 7.5 Stefan Muthesius. -- 7.6 Vicky Richardson. -- 7.7 James Woudhuysen. -- Index of Names and Subjects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Construction industry -- Management.
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Construction industry -- Technological innovations -- Management.
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| Author |
Abley, Ian.
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| LC no. |
2004557812 |
| ISBN |
0470852895 |
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