By Ralf Brand
Believing that technical and social nation-states are even more hooked up than most folk curious about sustainability are inclined to admit, the writer has constructed an cutting edge and useful textual content that encourages humans to ''co-design'' applied sciences that make socially-desired behaviors extra beautiful. Written essentially at a community-initiative point, with useful case stories and directions for utilizing the ideas mentioned, this can be useful for college students of technological know-how and expertise, neighborhood coverage and making plans, and practitioners together with urban and nearby planners, policymakers and specialists.
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Either to discipline the people or to substitute for the unreliable people a . . groom’ (Latour, 1992, p230). With his flair for felicitous phrases, Latour distinguishes between the adjectives intra-somatic and extra-somatic in this regard. The former signifies The Nature of the Problem 25 approaches that target innate human traits, morality and comprehension, as the agents of socially desirable results. Approaches of the latter kind, in contrast, ‘never rely on undisciplined men, but always on safe, delegated non-humans’ (Latour, 1992, p246).
2 The ‘Seamless Web’ or ‘Technological Drama’ Technological voluntarism Those who are unaware or in denial of ‘anti-programmes’ sail under the flag of technological determinism. Adherents of this stance therefore would bet that we would end up with cars, corkscrews and silicon chips again if we replayed world history with the exact same starting parameters. Science and technology studies have unmasked this Laplacian world-view in the last decades as fairly naïve. Seminal texts in this field have demonstrated how technology is socially shaped (MacKenzie and Wacjman, 1985) or socially constructed (Pinch and Bijker, 1984).
It is the result of a fundamental reconstruction of the inner ring road, which used to serve as major traffic artery with two lanes in each direction. The two lanes in the clockwise direction were completely rededicated to other purposes. The outermost section is now a wide sidewalk, beside a differently coloured bicycle track. This is separated by a curb from two car lanes, which allow only counter-clockwise traffic at a maximum speed of 50km/h and 30km/h along cobblestone stretches. Differently coloured bus lanes along the southwestern stretch of the Green Boulevard and at major intersections and bus stops ensure a smooth flow for public transportation (MVGWV, 2001).