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Mark Kingwell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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nearest thing to heaven the Empire State Building and american dreams
2006Co-Authors: Mark KingwellAbstract:This elegantly written appreciation of the Empire State Building opens up the Building's richness and importance as an icon of America. The book leads us through the facts surrounding the skyscraper's conception and construction, then enters into a provocative theoretical discussion of its function as an icon, its representation in pictures, literature, and film, and the implications of its iconic status as New York's most important architectural monument to ambition and optimism. The Empire State Building literally cannot be seen in its totality, from any perspective. And paradoxically, this Building of unmistakable solidity has been made invisible by familiarity and reproduction through imagery. Mark Kingwell encourages us to look beneath the strong physical presence of the Building, to become aware of its evolving layers of meaning, and to see how the Building lives within a unique imaginative space in the landscape of the American consciousness. He offers new ways of understanding the Empire State Building in all its complexity and surprising insights into its special role as an American icon.
Tracey Nicholls - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an encounter with mark kingwell nearest thing to heaven the Empire State Building and american dreams new haven ct yale university press 2006 256 pages
2007Co-Authors: Tracey NichollsAbstract:Mark Kingwell’s latest book is an engaging and loving tribute to New York City’s Empire State Building, arguably the most famous and widely recognized Building in the United States. His book takes its title from a line in the film An Affair to Remember , one of the first to depict the Building as a site of meeting or reunion for couples whose lives are transformed by ‘true love’; the female lead responds to her lover’s suggestion that they meet again in six months at the top of the Building with the enthusiastic observation that his choice is perfect because “it’s the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York!” (172). Kingwell’s analysis of the Empire State Building ranges over the history of its construction, its life as an office Building and a tourist attraction, and its presence in our cultural landscape, tracing the “dynamic between longing and visibility” the Building exemplifies (ix). While he provides a comprehensive account of the complex and enduring relationship the Building has had with the city since its inception, Kingwell pays particular attention to how, having previously faded into a kind of invisibility because of its familiarity, the Building has re-emerged as visible since the abrupt and tragic removal of the World Trade Center Buildings (ix). Kingwell describes his book as “concerned
Kenneth F Robson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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analyzing the Empire State Building project from the perspective of lean delivery system a descriptive case study
International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 2015Co-Authors: Somik Ghosh, Kenneth F RobsonAbstract:The Empire State Building held the distinction for being the tallest Building in the world for over 40 years since it was officially opened on May 1, 1931. In 20 months the Building was designed, engineered, and constructed. In order to complete the Empire State Building under the schedule, the designers and the contractors in collaboration with other stakeholders of the project had employed a delivery method that bear close resemblances with lean delivery system. Interestingly, the Empire State Building was constructed at a time when the concept of “lean delivery systems” did not yet exist. The current article presents a descriptive case study of the delivery method of the Empire State Building project based on archival records and historical accounts. In the case study the authors have attempted to compare the delivery method with that of the lean delivery system and recognized similarities between the two. The current case study illustrates the ingenuity of the stakeholders of the Empire State Building...
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analyzing the Empire State Building project from the perspective of lean project delivery system
2014Co-Authors: Somik Ghosh, Kenneth F RobsonAbstract:The Empire State Building was the tallest Building in the world when it was officially opened on May 1, 1931. It held that distinction for over 40 years. In 20 months the Building was designed, engineered, permitted, demolition of an existing Building completed, and the Building constructed. In order to complete the Empire State Building under the allotted 18 month schedule, Starrett Bros. & Eken, the contractors employed innovative construction methods and techniques. Many of these construction methods qualify as tools of lean construction practiced in today’s construction industry. Comparing the design and construction processes employed by Starrett Bros. & Eken with the theoretical constructs of Lean Project Delivery System (LPDS), it is evident that several lean construction principles were employed during the construction of Empire State Building, a quarter of a century before lean concepts were formalized. Using archival records and historical accounts, this paper examined the design and construction processes of the Empire State Building and compared them with the LPDS processes that are increasingly employed in the construction industry today.
Joanna Lewis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Empire State Building war and welfare in kenya 1925 52
2000Co-Authors: Joanna LewisAbstract:Introduction - War & welfare at the Colonial Office: Empire State-Building 1925-45 - 'Tropical East Ends' in war: four witnesses to the imperial politics of African welfare - Village people, family men & married women: the fantasies of wartime Kenya - 'Kingi Georgi, mtukufu': African soldiers & the Second World War - 'To work like a nigger' or 'shirk like an African': social welfare's uphill struggle, 1946-48 - The imperial politics of inclusion: community development & social engineering, 1948-53
Yvan Droz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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lewis joanna Empire State Building war welfare in kenya 1925 1952 oxford james currey nairobi eaep athens ohio university press 2000 393 p index bibl eastern african studies
Cahiers d'Études africaines, 2002Co-Authors: Yvan DrozAbstract:Dedie a John Lonsdale, l’ouvrage de Joanna Lewis fait honneur a la tradition africaniste des etudes historiques anglaises. Il etudie l’apparition de la volonte de « civiliser » les colonies en ameliorant les conditions de vie des populations africaines, en particulier kenyanes. En fait, il s’agit bien de l’histoire des premieres interrogations face a ce qui deviendra le « developpement ». C’est cet aspect de l’ouvrage qui le rend fort interessant. En effet, on decouvre que les preoccupations ...