Reinventing the Workplace by John Worthington

Reinventing the Workplace by John Worthington

By John Worthington

Reinventing the place of work НАУКА и УЧЕБА, ПРОФЕССИИ И РЕМЕСЛА, ХОББИ и РЕМЕСЛА, ДОМ и СЕМЬЯ Reinventing the office, moment EditionBy John Worthington* writer: Architectural Press* variety of Pages: 192* book Date: 2005-12-17* ISBN / ASIN: 0750661755Buy New $47.20.com eighty five

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Damaging effects on human society were increasingly evident. These prompted in the mid-nineteeth century the first significant environmental legislation concerned with public health. At the same time, model settlements, amongst other philanthropic and utopian initiatives, were founded. By the first part of the twentieth century, evolution of transport technology, first in electric tramways and railways, then in road and air transportation, underwrote rapid expansion of cities into the space- and energy-hungry settlement model familiar not only in urban America (Chicago is the classic example, with Los Angeles the latter-day sub-type) but also around the world (Melbourne is an almost perfect case).

2 The lines have been converging, and . . 3 The infrastructure line does not impact as a factor at all until the midtwentieth century, and . . 4 The lines cross at the end of the twentieth century, which is the crucial difference. These factors created the pre-conditions for, first, the industrial cities of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (as a result of better communications, better transport, cheaper energy, cheap land, no real environmental constraints); then, as convergence continued, the development of the twentieth century central business district/suburb city (given cheap energy, higher densities, contours of land values, intensification of uses, 16 CHARTING A FUTURE daily patterns of commuter movements from city centre to suburbs).

In Northern Europe a reaction against very large open planned spaces began to reverse the Bu«rolandschaft layout concept. At the same time, rigorous space planning and management methods began to be imported from the USA into Europe, and office furniture design stimulated by North American suppliers was raising environmental standards at the workplace. Computers, however, were still centralised in computer rooms. A hint of the future was the commissioning of DEGW in 1979 by a Swedish furniture company, NKR, to brief the development of prototype furniture specifically for the use of information technology (IT).

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