Developing of appropriate urban housing concepts in developing countries
The Modular Urban Housing Concept for Tanzania, MUHCT, is a practical example of the theoretical model which concentrates on ranges of activities in a logical and systematic way.
Structural Masonry Designers' Manual
This new handbook covers the main structural elements and forms of brick and blockwork, the application of reinforcing and post-tensioning and some of the authors' recent developments. A major feature is a series of step-by-step design examples of typical elements and buildings. The manual contains the following chapters: advantages and disadvantages of structural masonry; design philosophy; limit state design; basis of design (1): vertical loading; basis of design (2): lateral loading--tensile and shear strength; strapping, propping and tying of loadbearing masonry; stability, accidental damage and progressive collapse; structural elements and forms; design of masonry elements (1): vertically loaded; design of masonry elements (2): combined bending and axial loading; design of single-storey buildings; fin and diaphragm walls in tall single-storey buildings; design of multi-storey structures; reinforced and post-tensioned masonry; arches. Appendix 1 deals with materials, Appendix 2 with components, Appendix 3 with movement joints, Appendix 4 with provision for services. Appendix 5 presents tables of design loads. (TRRL)
Epistemic instrumentalism and the reason to believe in accord with the evidence
Epistemic instrumentalists face a puzzle. In brief, the puzzle is that if the reason there is to believe in accord with the evidence depends, as the instrumentalist says it does, on agents’ idiosyncratic interests, then there is no reason to expect that this reason is universal. Here, I identify and explain two strategies instrumentalists have used to try and solve this puzzle. I then argue that we should find these strategies wanting. Faced with the failure of these strategies, I articulate a heretofore neglected solution on behalf of instrumentalism.