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This book discusses essential strategies and approaches to creating mentally restorative environments for highly stressed and depressed workers at sweatshop factories. Drawing on the Foxconn factory in Longhua, China and an adjacent urban village as a sample site for research and design practice, the book employs a bottom-up and participatory process. The content is divided into two main parts, the first of which investigates economic, cultural, human rights, and environmental issues related to the electronic industry and urban village, providing in-depth research on various aspects, especially the working and living conditions for Foxconn workers. Based on these findings, the second part highlights potential landscape designs to address a range of issues, locations, and scales. The book’s goals are to provide a set of original methods for research and design practice in a complex social and economic context, and to raise awareness regarding the health, dignity and freedom of millions of workers.

Buildings—Design and construction. --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Industrial sociology. --- Environmental health. --- Employee health promotion. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Sociology of Work. --- Environmental Health. --- Employee Health and Wellbeing. --- Employee wellness programs --- Employees --- Health promotion in the workplace --- Occupational health promotion --- Workplace health promotion --- Worksite health promotion --- Health promotion --- Occupational health services --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Construction industry --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Design and construction --- Factories --- Architecture, Industrial --- Urban landscape architecture --- Landscape architecture --- Industrial architecture --- Factory buildings --- Industrial plants --- Manufacturing plants --- Mills (Buildings) --- Plants (Industrial buildings) --- Factory system --- Industrial buildings --- Mills and mill-work --- Workshops

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The increasingly urbanized world has created various problems of environment, climate, consumption of resources, and public health, which are closely linked to the side-effects of urbanization such as sprawl, congestion, housing affordability and loss of open space. Fundamental to the urban problems are two separate yet related issues: urban structure and urban dynamics. The chapters collected in this book present an excellent profile of the current state of geospatial analysis and modelling, and demonstrate how these approaches can contribute to the study of various urban issues. The book addresses key themes including new ways of capturing data digitally at the individual level, the development of systems based around networks, the notion of linking hierarchy to networks to morphology as in complexity theory, and the development of new ways of integrating diverse urban processes through simulation paying careful attention to the basic econometric and statistical principles of spatial analysis. With a foreword by Michael Batty and an epilog by Michael F. Goodchild.

Geospatial data. --- Spatial analysis (Statistics). --- Urban economics -- Mathematical models. --- Urbanization -- Mathematical models. --- City planning --- Urban economics --- Urbanization --- Geospatial data --- Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- Geography --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Cartography --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Statistical methods --- Mathematical models --- Mathematical models. --- Analysis, Spatial (Statistics) --- Data, Geospatial --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Geography. --- Geophysics. --- Geographical information systems. --- Urban geography. --- Architecture. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Human geography. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Human Geography. --- Urbanism. --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Spatial systems --- Geographic information systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Physical geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Human ecology --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Design and construction --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Government policy --- Management --- Architecture, Primitive

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This book provides its reader with a good understanding of the stabilization of switched nonlinear systems (SNS), systems that are of practical use in diverse situations: design of fault-tolerant systems in space- and aircraft; traffic control; and heat propagation control of semiconductor power chips. The practical background is emphasized throughout the book; interesting practical examples frequently illustrate the theoretical results with aircraft and spacecraft given particular prominence. Stabilization of Switched Nonlinear Systems with Unstable Modes treats several different subclasses of SNS according to the characteristics of the individual system (time-varying and distributed parameters, for example), the state composition of individual modes and the degree and distribution of instability in its various modes. Achievement and maintenance of stability across the system as a whole is bolstered by trading off between individual modes which may be either stable or unstable, or by exploiting areas of partial stability within all the unstable modes. The book can be used as a reference for academic research on switched systems or used by graduate students of control theory and engineering. Readers should have studied linear and nonlinear system theory, and have some knowledge of switched and hybrid systems to get the most from this monograph.

Nonlinear systems --- Automatic control --- Mathematical models. --- Systems, Nonlinear --- System theory --- Systems theory. --- Astronautics. --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Systems Theory, Control. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Control engineering. --- System theory. --- Aerospace engineering. --- Aeronautical engineering --- Astronautics --- Engineering --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Science --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers --- Philosophy

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Hybrid systems --- Fault tolerance (Engineering) --- Control theory --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Hybrid computers. --- Fault tolerant design --- Fault withstandability (Engineering) --- Engineering. --- System theory. --- Control engineering. --- Control. --- Systems Theory, Control. --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Computers --- Systems theory. --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Science --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers --- Philosophy