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Clio and the Economics of QWERTY
A path-dependent sequence of economic changes is one of which significant influences upon the eventual outcome can be exerted by temporally remote events, including occurrences dominated by chance elements rather than systematic forces. The dynamic process thus assumes an essentially historical character. The story of QWERTY illustrates why the study of economic history is vital to the making of an economist. Nothing in the engineering of computer terminals requires the awkward keyboard layout known as QWERTY. Devotees of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) hold the world's records for speed typing, yet QWERTY persists. Despite the presence of the kind of externalities that standard static analysis asserts would interfere with the achievement of the socially optimal degree of system compatibility, competition in the absence of perfect futures markets drove the typewriter industry prematurely into standardization on the wrong system, where decentralized decision making has been sufficient to hold it. Such an outcome seems only too possible given strong technical interrelatedness, scale economies, and irreversibility of investments.
Journal Article
Google Chicago Headquarters
The seven-floor office was formerly a windowless cold storage warehousing facility. Place-Based Relationships Historical Connection to Place: 1000 West Fulton Market was built in 1923 as a state-of-the-art cold storage warehouse. Built Experience Lessons Learned: By transforming a windowless cold storage warehousing facility into a vibrant, light-filled space, Google Chicago's new office exemplifies neighborhood revitalization.
Trade Publication Article
The social construction of office space
The internal and external appearances of offices are far from value-free, shows this review of their built environment. Pointing to the synchronous development of office buildings, space and work, the author explains the links between changes in the physical space and in the social significance of office work. Using social and architectural histories and contemporary accounts, he illustrates the interaction of social and architectural structures, tracing shifts in the signals sent by the office environment to its occupants - from the high-trust, high-status clerks in Dickensian counting-houses to the low-trust, low-status white-collar workers in today's plate-glass structures and back offices.
Journal Article
Present at the Creation: Ford Highland Park Plant, 1914
Greuther interprets a photograph of several executives inside an office in Ford Motor Co's Highland Park plant, which was taken in early 1914. He says that the photograph first appeared in the May 1914 issue of Engineering Magazine, as part of Horace Arnold's Ford Methods and the Ford Shops. He opines that he photograph is a paradoxical image: unsteady but balanced, and stationary but dynamic.
Journal Article
DESIGNING THE CITY
IN 2001, I BEGAN an ethnography of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, headed by Rem Koolhaas. Early on in my work, Rem gave me a tour of the office, and the first thing he showed me was the Whitney table. “This is the project of the extension of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York… this is a table of democracy,” he remarked. It was the most important project for him at the time, as he was dreaming of building in “delirious” New York. Later, I found out that the table of models contained not
Book Chapter
Office seeker: architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright was in his late 60's and many thought past his prime when he was commissioned by department store tycoon Edgar Kaufmann to design a new home including an office. The result was Fallingwater, an indisputable Wright masterpiece.
Magazine Article
