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Examines how we design nature, architecture, computer programs, theologies, and the world.

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword
The Design of Our World
Arguments from Design
Composition and Repetition as Explanation
Exploration and Discipline as Ways of Designing
Artifice and Authenticity
Authenticity, Rarity, and Plasticity as the Design of Nature
The Manufacture of the Sacred, the Reenactment of Transcendence, and the Temptations of Design
The Real Thing in Design
20 Questions, Commodification, and Friendly Monsters
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

MARTIN H. KRIEGER is Professor of Planning at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development of the University of Southern California. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, MIT, and University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, and he has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science and at the National Humanities Center. His earlier books include The Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena and Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World.