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9780230500501 English 0230500501 Gaming markets are evolving rapidly. Spearheading this change is the internet, which has enabled cross-border gambling on an unprecedented scale. This book explores the changing landscape of the gaming market and is a crucial companion for all looking for informed discussion on the future of gaming., In the successful Transmaterial series, author Blaine Brownell presents collections of materials that have the potential to transform the physical environment. With Materials Strategies, Princeton Architectural Press s next book in its Architecture Brief series, Brownell takes his research to the next stage by addressing how materials be applied to affect such a transformation, ultimately achieving design innovation. [Architecture has been shaped by the continual transformation of material technologies and application methods throughout history. Surprisingly, these approaches are rarely taught in academia or practice the former typically focuses on building-technology sequence, where students are given information about basic material properties and conventional methodologies. Architectural practice is worse: in the majority of offices, there is no established discipline or method for material innovation despite the widespread belief in its importance.] [katharine, this whole paragraph could be cut if this is too much, which I think it is.] Material Strategies is a primer on materials that goes beyond a mere description of materials. It provides insights regarding emerging technologies as well as their creative implementation, and presents a series of recent case studies that demonstrate successful realization of material-based innovation. The book is structured by a concise set of chapters based on fundamental material categories mineral, concrete, wood, metal, glass, and plastic. The introduction of each chapter describes the basic history of the material and its importance to architecture, a summary of previous building innovations and their technological as well as cultural effects, current environmental challenges and their future ramifications, recent disruptive technologies and their preliminary manifestations, as well as a series of disruptive applications exemplified by recent pioneering buildings. Architectural case studies are described with a focus on the significance of their particular contributions, and are documented in detailed illustrations. The primary attention of the book is on contemporary projects because of the ways in which these buildings deliver creative contributions related to present-day circumstances. Unlike many how-to manuals, the emphasis here is on unconventional and emerging practices. Moreover, unlike many surveys of new materials, this manual seeks to explain which new material technologies are most significant and why, how these technologies are being influenced by recent environmental concerns, the theoretical implications and conceptual debates one must consider, as well as the ways in which new material strategies are utilized to advance the architectural canon., This book provides an overview of the current state of the gambling industry and evaluates the changes which will come with the new market environment. It examines the pros and cons of increased competition from the perspective of consumer welfare, problem gambling and government revenues.
9780230500501 English 0230500501 Gaming markets are evolving rapidly. Spearheading this change is the internet, which has enabled cross-border gambling on an unprecedented scale. This book explores the changing landscape of the gaming market and is a crucial companion for all looking for informed discussion on the future of gaming., In the successful Transmaterial series, author Blaine Brownell presents collections of materials that have the potential to transform the physical environment. With Materials Strategies, Princeton Architectural Press s next book in its Architecture Brief series, Brownell takes his research to the next stage by addressing how materials be applied to affect such a transformation, ultimately achieving design innovation. [Architecture has been shaped by the continual transformation of material technologies and application methods throughout history. Surprisingly, these approaches are rarely taught in academia or practice the former typically focuses on building-technology sequence, where students are given information about basic material properties and conventional methodologies. Architectural practice is worse: in the majority of offices, there is no established discipline or method for material innovation despite the widespread belief in its importance.] [katharine, this whole paragraph could be cut if this is too much, which I think it is.] Material Strategies is a primer on materials that goes beyond a mere description of materials. It provides insights regarding emerging technologies as well as their creative implementation, and presents a series of recent case studies that demonstrate successful realization of material-based innovation. The book is structured by a concise set of chapters based on fundamental material categories mineral, concrete, wood, metal, glass, and plastic. The introduction of each chapter describes the basic history of the material and its importance to architecture, a summary of previous building innovations and their technological as well as cultural effects, current environmental challenges and their future ramifications, recent disruptive technologies and their preliminary manifestations, as well as a series of disruptive applications exemplified by recent pioneering buildings. Architectural case studies are described with a focus on the significance of their particular contributions, and are documented in detailed illustrations. The primary attention of the book is on contemporary projects because of the ways in which these buildings deliver creative contributions related to present-day circumstances. Unlike many how-to manuals, the emphasis here is on unconventional and emerging practices. Moreover, unlike many surveys of new materials, this manual seeks to explain which new material technologies are most significant and why, how these technologies are being influenced by recent environmental concerns, the theoretical implications and conceptual debates one must consider, as well as the ways in which new material strategies are utilized to advance the architectural canon., This book provides an overview of the current state of the gambling industry and evaluates the changes which will come with the new market environment. It examines the pros and cons of increased competition from the perspective of consumer welfare, problem gambling and government revenues.