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Earlier this month, national security scholar Patrick Doherty published a proposal in Foreign Policy magazine for America’s next “grand strategy,” a plan for how the U.S. should reposition itself in a world defined less by threats from communism or terrorism and more by the global challenge of sustainability. His offering is among a crop of such foreign policy tracts all aiming big ideas at the newly re-inaugurated president.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/01/walkable-urbanism-foriegn-policy/4547/
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/09/a_new_US_grand_strategy
The strategic landscape of the
21st century has finally come into focus. The great global project is no longer
to stop communism, counter terrorists, or promote a superficial notion of
freedom. Rather, the world must accommodate 3 billion additional middle-class
aspirants in two short decades -- without provoking resource wars,
insurgencies, and the devastation of our planet's ecosystem. For this we need a
strategy.
That was an good class, I wish I hadn't missed it.
This class will show you how to manipulate and generate pipe parts lists
and networks to efficiently design complex pipe networks using
alignments, profiles, intersections, and pipes. You will see a 3-staged
approach to design and output for creating a custom pipe fittings
library, for generating multiple complex pipe networks and merging them
together into 1 interactive network, and then moving this data to
constructable plan sets. The class will contain instructions on how to
add structure fittings and blocks to the existing pipe catalog and then
assign styles to those fittings to represent the item graphically. We
move on with a basic layout using alignments, then produce a profile of
the center of our pipe. From this we will use intersections to tie the
branches of our network together and then extract the feature line to
create the pipe. Finally we will produce constructable documents using
this data with labeling and math.
