Standards
$39.98
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2025
Summary
Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world.
In Standards, Jeffrey Pomerantz and Jason Griffey provide an essential introduction to this invisible but critical form of infrastructure—the rules and specifications that govern so many elements of the physical and digital environments, from the color of school buses to the shape of shipping containers.
In an approachable, often outright funny fashion, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549493 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262549492 |
| Author: | Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jason Griffey |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series |
About The Author
Jeffrey Pomerantz
Jeffrey Pomerantz, co-founder of the educational technology company Proximal Design Labs and former professor of Library and Information Science, is the author of Metadata, also in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.
Jason Griffey, Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, has been a professor and academic librarian at the University of TN at Chattanooga, a technology consultant, and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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