Taking Place: The Spacial Contexts of Science, Technology And Business - Tapa dura

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Increasingly places are being shaped by interactions of science, technology and industry, making those places essential to the understanding of municipalities, companies, scientists and scientific institutions. Here contributors discuss through historical and contemporary examples the embodiment of ideas and power in architectural structures and how those ideas can be used to understand the complexities of the many-faceted relationships the places reveal. They start in micro-places such as a "laboratory of enlightenment" and spaces involving obstetric care, and move to meso-places such as the "Science City of Stockholm," nuclear reactors, the world of urban planning from 1930 to 1970 and rural transformation. In the macro places they examine indigenous people, place as a resource in business, creating networks of resources, using the "local for local imperative, and then close with information across spatial scales. Science History Publications USA is a division of Watson Publishing International. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)