PDF Precedents in Zero-Energy Design: Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon by Michael Zaretsky in Arts-Photography

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Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity; these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal; encroaching on all aspects of everyday life. Starting from the most literal levelmdash;barricades and barriers in front of buildings; beefed up border patrols; gated communities; "safe rooms;"mdash;to more abstract levelsmdash;enhanced surveillance at public spaces such as airports; increasing worries about contagion; the psychological predilection for fortified spacemdash;the contributors cover the full gamut of securitized public life that is defining the zeitgeist of twenty-first century America