‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

This chapter explores the ecology of human development, those forces in the person's environment that affect and influence development. Urie Bronfenbrenner's model of the human ecosystem guides the discussion, making connections between children in families and in communities and the larger society that surrounds them. The human ecosystem model is much like the study of the natural ecology, focusing on the interactions between subjects at various levels of the environment as they affect each other. The interaction between individual and environment forms the basis of an ecological approach to human development. This view sees the process of development as the expansion of the child's conception of the world and the child's ability to act on that world. Risks to development can come from both direct threats and the absence of opportunities for development. Sociocultural risk refers to the impoverishment in the child's world of essential experiences and relationships.

The Ecology of Human Development

A new public administration movement is emerging to move beyond traditional public administration and New Public Management. The new movement is a response to the challenges of a networked, multisector, no-one-wholly-in-charge world and to the shortcomings of previous public administration approaches. In the new approach, values beyond efficiency and effectiveness—and especially democratic values—are prominent. Government has a special role to play as a guarantor of public values, but citizens as well as businesses and nonprofit organizations are also important as active public problem solvers. The article highlights value-related issues in the new approach and presents an agenda for research and action to be pursued if the new approach is to fulfill its promise.

Public Value Governance: Moving Beyond Traditional Public Administration and the New Public Management

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and its effect on occupant well-being and comfort is an important area of study. This paper presents a state of the art study through extensive review of the literature, by establishing links between IEQs and occupant well-being and comfort. A range of issues such as sick building syndrome, indoor air quality thermal comfort, visual comfort and acoustic comfort are considered in this paper. The complexity of the relationship between occupant comfort and well-being parameters with IEQ are further exacerbated due to relationships that these parameters have with each other as well. Based on the review of literature in these areas it is established that design of buildings needs to consider occupant well-being parameters right at the beginning. Some good practices in all these different areas have also been highlighted and documented in this paper. The knowledge established as part of this paper would be helpful for researchers, designer, engineers and facilities maintenance engineers. This paper will also be of great benefit to researchers who endeavour to undertake research in this area and could act as a good starting point for them.

Impact of indoor environmental quality on occupant well-being and comfort: A review of the literature

We contribute to the literature on institutional and organizational change by integrating two related areas of study: the theory and methods of analysis informed by the research on institutional logics and historical-event sequencing. Institutional logics provide the theory to understand how the content of culture influences organizational change; historical-event sequencing reveals the underlying patterns of cultural transformation. We apply this dual perspective to the cases of institutional stability and change in organizational governance in three industries: accounting, architecture, and higher-education publishing. Research on governance has focused on changes in organizational design between markets, hierarchies, and networks. Missing from this research is an understanding of how institutions at the wider societal level motivate organizations to adopt one of these governance forms over another. We examine how the governance of firms in these industries has been influenced by the institutional logics of the professions, the market, the state, and the corporation by focusing on three mechanisms – institutional entrepreneurs, structural overlap, and historical-event sequencing. Overall, our findings reveal how accounting was influenced by state regulation producing a punctuated equilibrium model, architecture by professional duality producing a cyclical model, and publishing by market rationalization producing an evolutionary model of institutional change in organizational governance.

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Institutional Logics and Institutional Change in Organizations: Transformation in Accounting, Architecture, and Publishing

A design thinking framework for healthcare management and innovation

In The Scheme Of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture

Creating the public realm in an era of constrained resources demands a level of cooperation among multiple sectors rarely seen before and a recognition that the boundaries between what we have considered “public” and “private” have become porous and blurred. A number of recent projects on either side of the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis show what this means in terms of delivering public value much greater than any one sector could produce on its own.

Public Value and the Integrative Mind: How Multiple Sectors Can Collaborate in City Building

A growing body of evidence demonstrates that alterations in individual behaviors alone are not sufficient to change the course of the enduring public health epidemics such as childhood obesity. Ins...

Green Health: Urban Planning and the Development of Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods and Schools

Chapter One - Our Collapsing Global Bridge Instead of superfluous form, make everything count Instead of the quantity of things, focus on their qualities Chapter Two - How Nature Suffers in the Naturalistic Fallacy Instead of throwing away, reuse or recycle Instead of ignoring sources, source everything Chapter Three - Why having Less is More Instead of consuming things, treat them as sacred Instead of wanting more, seek doing with less Chapter Four - When Virtues are No Vice Instead of more expensive things, make them affordable Instead of excluding other species, provide them a home Chapter Five - Drafting a New Social Contract Instead of cutting us off from nature, connect us to it Instead of reducing the diversity of a site, improve it Chapter Six - The Needs of Duty Instead of creating objects to possess, build community Instead of single-use things, make them multi-functional Chapter Seven - The Consequences of Ignoring Consequences Instead of believing abstractions, attend to what is real Instead of radical experiments, think in evolutionary terms

Thomas R Fisher

Papers

A design thinking framework for healthcare management and innovation

In The Scheme Of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture

Public Value and the Integrative Mind: How Multiple Sectors Can Collaborate in City Building

Green Health: Urban Planning and the Development of Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods and Schools

Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival