User:JulianPriest

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JulianPriest is a PeerAdvisor to the AlmostPerfect Lab

Short Bio

Julian Priest develops independent collaborative and soloprojects in the overlaps and gaps between the fields of art, development, policy, research, activism, and technology often focusing on social aspects. Recent projects include;

• The Political Spectrum - a 5m white board exploring spectrum regulation at Waves exhibition in Riga http://rixc.lv/waves
• Joindot - a collaborative artwork based on the children's classic Join the dots - http://joindot.org
• WSFII - a series of events that make up "The World Summits on Free Information Infrastructures" - http://wsfii.org
• Open Spectrum UK - a policy intervention in support of an open spectrum - http://openspectrum.org.uk
• The State of Wireless London - a research piece on wireless networking in London - http://informal.org.uk
• Picopeering Agreement - a network sharing agreement for free networkers - http://picopeer.net
• Playing Card Based Routing Protocols - a messaging network based on playing cards - http://informal.org.uk
• Wireless Roadshow - capacity building for community wireless in the developing world - http://thewirelessroadshow.org
• Informal - a framework for collaborative research http://informal.org.uk
• Consume.net - the UK's first free wireless network community - http://consume.net

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some notes

http://www.iascp.org

Some human-made common-pool resources are renewed very rapidly once use has halted or been reduced. Broadcasting bandwidth, for example, is a common-pool resource because it is limited, one person’s use is subtractive, and thus congestion can occur if too many users try to use the same bandwidth at the same time. The resource regenerates immediately, however, when usage declines, so subtractability exists across users, but not across time. Such commons cannot be destroyed permanently by overuse.

Ostrom, Elinor(Editor). Drama of the Commons. Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press, 2002. p 22. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/banffcentre/Doc?id=10032451&ppg=34

Copyright © 2002. National Academies Press. All rights reserved.

On the one hand, it shows that that the aggregate throughput ca- pacity, measured as the sum of individual throughputs, can scale linearly in the number of nodes. On the other hand, the result underscores the importance of choosing minimum power levels for communication and suggests that simply communicating with the closest node or base station could yield good capacity even for multihop hybrid wireless net- works. http://decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~prkumar/ps_files/04_07_18_capacity.pdf

Elinor Ostrom views broadcast bandwidth as a finite resource - but this is dependent on network topology. Kumar shows that total throughput in a mesh network can scale linearly with node numbers - the more nodes the more total throughput.

While radio spectrum is a common pool resource - the technological implementation of transmitters and receivers determines whether one should treat radio spectrum as a subtractive common pool resource, a renewable common pool resource or an additive common pool resource. By using appropriate technologies and mandating these through protocol, policy or simply marketing scarcity can be avoided in the creation of an additive common pool resource of radio spectrum.

This unique book is about landscape, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, design and manage landscapes at many scales and in many locations; urban, surburban and rural. Despite the ubiquity of ‘sustainability’ as a concept, this is the first book to address the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability in a comprehensive way.

Much in the book is underpinned by landscape ecology, in contrast to the idea of landscape as only appealing to the eye or aspiring cerebrally to be fine art. As this book argues, landscape is and must be much more than this; landscape architecture is about making places which are biologically wholesome, socially just and spiritually rewarding.

The book argues that the sustainability agenda needs a new mindset among professionals. They need to stop asking first, is it affordable? Is it beautiful? Is it what the client wants? Is it art? Will my colleagues approve? And instead start asking, first and foremost, is it sustainable?

Benson, John F. Landscape and Sustainability. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 2001. p i. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/banffcentre/Doc?id=10016852&ppg=1

Copyright © 2001. Routledge. All rights reserved.