Martin H Krieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1294906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin H Krieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin H |
| FAMILY NAME | Krieger |
| SIGNATURE | KRIEGER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1397-6294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nathaniel Wallich
In March 1807, Nathaniel Wallich, a young Danish surgeon left his home in Copenhagen towards India. During the troubles of the Napoleonic Wars, it was not possible to foresee, that he was to emerge as one of the most prominent nineteenth century botanists. Wallich spent most of his adulthood in India and, as the long-time superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, gained extensive expertise on Indian flora. A truly global communication networ…
Riding Uncertainty
To “ride uncertainty” is to plan, decide, or act when we haven’t a clue as to the choices or probabilities. We are to be genuinely surprised. Riders of uncertainty forge their way forward through prudence, vigilance, and curiosity and through attention to precursors. Obstructions and impossibilities become the chance for invention, and in working their way forward riders discover the meaning of their situation
On Syzygy Street
A city is an identity in manifold presentations or profiles, some of which are reviewed here. Why and how do cities and planning allow for so many differing and apparently incompatible analogies (and theories)? To ask, What is really going on? is perhaps to miss that manifold. For cities allow for regionalized analogies, overlapping and incompatible, and many may be valid, at least regionally, at the same time. More generally, we describe thinkin…
Options and Insurance for Planning
In evaluating projects using cost-benefit analysis, the option value of such projects and the insurance they provide is likely to alter both the costs and the benefits substantially
Dutch Cemeteries in South India
Commentary
Urban Tomography
Urban Tomography is a novel application of mobile smartphone technology, designed to enable pervasive dense documentation of city life by many smartphone users at the same time and provide an automatically-archived historical record of places in time. Besides social-scientific inquiry and research, the system might enable community residents to document their own lives. We describe several pilot fieldwork applications in the use of Urban Tomograp…
Commentary
Commentary
Wendt, Reinhard [Hg.], An Indian to the Indians? On the Initial Failure and the Posthumous Success of the Missionary Ferdinand Kittel (1832–1903)
A Dozen “Tamales!”
Taking Pictures in the City
Planners, and teachers and students of planning, ought systematically to document ordinary urban phenomena: store-front churches, vernacular visual merchandising, industry,... Careful archiving and indexing is crucial. For long-lasting records, photographic film still provides the best medium for still photographs; digital video and audio are probably best for motion pictures and sound
Geschichte Asiens
Im Zuge der Globalisierung rücken die einzelnen Erdteile immer stärker in das öffentliche Bewusstsein. Die vorliegende Einführung beschäftigt sich mit dem größten Kontinent der Erde: Asien. Die Darstellung reicht von den frühen Gemeinwesen Mesopotamiens und des Industales bis zu den heutigen hoch entwickelten Staaten am Indischen Ozean und seinen Randmeeren. Der Band ist in zwei Hauptabschnitte gegliedert: historische Grunderfahrungen und Einzelr…
Foundations of Complex-Systems Theories
Planning and Design as the Manufacture of Transcendence
The traditions of design—in natural science, computation, theology, architecture, and literature and art—provide models for some aspects of planning. These models are especially concerned with order, coherence, meaning, structure, and judgment, and parallels or homologies among them. They also show how the making of wholeness (the “manufacture of transcendence”) is in tension with contingency, fetishism, and failure
Making a Paradigmatic Convention Normal
The Argument Most lay users of statistics think in terms of means (averages), variances or the square of the standard deviation, and Gaussians or bell-shaped curves. Such conventions are entrenched by statistical practice, by deep mathematical theorems from probability, and by theorizing in the various natural and social sciences. I am not claiming that the particular conventions (here, the statistics) we adopt are arbitrary. Entrenchment can be …
What Does Jerusalem Have to Do With Athens
Making Physical Objects
Making Physical Objects: The Law of the Excluded Middle, Dumbing-Up the World, & Handles, Tools, and Fetishes Martin H. Krieger (bio) I take conventional gender to be structural—that structure, by the way, entrenched socially by a high prestige subculture, that subculture being mathematized natural science and, being a subculture, relecting in turn the larger culture’s categorial normative system of gender, one that insists that mixture is perver…
Doing Physics
Contingency in Planning
Theorems as meaningful cultural artifacts
Segmentation and Filtering into Neighborhoods as Processes of Percolation and Diffusion
A set of models is reviewed in which orderly urban phenomena are accounted for in terms of noise (randomness, stochastic processes): segmentation as a process of runs in random processes (percolation); filtering as a process of random walk and so diffusion, and as a Markov process. In particular, 'continuity' of the spatial price envelope, a truism of real estate, leads to the diffusion equation. No foreordained centers, boundaries, or gravity (o…
Marginalism and discontinuity
The Inner Game of Writing
Analytical work requires a peculiar sort of writing: First, its audience is busy, unlikely to reread something to see if it makes sense. And the audience is rather well defined in its concerns, whether they be decision makers or scholars. Second, deadlines are set by other bureaucratic and political agendas, and a document that is good enough and on time is valuable. Late is worthless. Hence there is finite time to do the work. There may be no ex…
The Elementary Structures of Particles
This Note points out a homology of structure employed by elementary particle physicists and by social anthropologists, and suggests its origin in a systemic order reflecting a `plenitude' of nature, and a non-degeneracy of names
Big Decisions and a Culture of Decisionmaking
Riding Uncertainty
To “ride uncertainty” is to plan, decide, or act when we haven’t a clue as to the choices or probabilities. We are to be genuinely surprised. Riders of uncertainty forge their way forward through prudence, vigilance, and curiosity and through attention to precursors. Obstructions and impossibilities become the chance for invention, and in working their way forward riders discover the meaning of their situation
Big decisions and a culture of decisionmaking
“Big” decisions are defined as discontinuous, abrupt, and unique, in contrast to “little” decisions, which are marginal, commensurable, and additive. We can model big decisions, as well as a wider range of little decisions, if we enlarge our notion of decisionmaking to include legal interpretation, rites‐of‐passage ritual and conversion experience, heroic leadership, critical judgment of works of literature and art, and entrepreneurship. These mo…
Six propositions on the poor and pollution
Taking Pictures in the City
Planners, and teachers and students of planning, ought systematically to document ordinary urban phenomena: store-front churches, vernacular visual merchandising, industry,... Careful archiving and indexing is crucial. For long-lasting records, photographic film still provides the best medium for still photographs; digital video and audio are probably best for motion pictures and sound
What Does Jerusalem Have to Do With Athens
The Inner Game of Writing
Analytical work requires a peculiar sort of writing: First, its audience is busy, unlikely to reread something to see if it makes sense. And the audience is rather well defined in its concerns, whether they be decision makers or scholars. Second, deadlines are set by other bureaucratic and political agendas, and a document that is good enough and on time is valuable. Late is worthless. Hence there is finite time to do the work. There may be no ex…
Where Do Centers Come From
A 'center' is a marked place in space or time or in a collection of objects, and surrounding it is a structure or pattern that supports it. The questions that concern us here are: 'Why are there centers at all?' 'Why is a center at a particular X?' Historical and combinatorial processes of centralization are reviewed, and a phenomenology and mechanisms are provided. Models considered include: stochastic markets with increasing returns to scale, c…
A Dozen “Tamales!”
Geschichte Asiens
Im Zuge der Globalisierung rücken die einzelnen Erdteile immer stärker in das öffentliche Bewusstsein. Die vorliegende Einführung beschäftigt sich mit dem größten Kontinent der Erde: Asien. Die Darstellung reicht von den frühen Gemeinwesen Mesopotamiens und des Industales bis zu den heutigen hoch entwickelten Staaten am Indischen Ozean und seinen Randmeeren. Der Band ist in zwei Hauptabschnitte gegliedert: historische Grunderfahrungen und Einzelr…
Planning and Design as the Manufacture of Transcendence
The traditions of design—in natural science, computation, theology, architecture, and literature and art—provide models for some aspects of planning. These models are especially concerned with order, coherence, meaning, structure, and judgment, and parallels or homologies among them. They also show how the making of wholeness (the “manufacture of transcendence”) is in tension with contingency, fetishism, and failure
Doing Physics
Theorems as meaningful cultural artifacts
Segmentation and Filtering into Neighborhoods as Processes of Percolation and Diffusion
A set of models is reviewed in which orderly urban phenomena are accounted for in terms of noise (randomness, stochastic processes): segmentation as a process of runs in random processes (percolation); filtering as a process of random walk and so diffusion, and as a Markov process. In particular, 'continuity' of the spatial price envelope, a truism of real estate, leads to the diffusion equation. No foreordained centers, boundaries, or gravity (o…
A Quantitative Study of the Psychoanalytic Hypotheses of Identification
Reconnaissance geologic map of the Camp Wood quadrangle, Yavapai County, Arizona
Feedbackfrom our readers
Six propositions on the poor and pollution
Some New Directions for Planning Theories
Advice and Planning
Research Policy and Review 11. New Tools for a Planner's Toolkit
After a flirtation with pure science and the liberal arts, professional education in all fields is once again tool-and-craft oriented. Still, the main tools come from high-status science and humanities. But the sciences now advocate design, holism, purpose, choice, emergentism, anima, history, and discontinuity; whereas the humanities stress ambiguity, incommensurability, impurity, and perversion. What is in prospect is a richer, less reductionis…
Big Decisions and a Culture of Decisionmaking
Big decisions and a culture of decisionmaking
“Big” decisions are defined as discontinuous, abrupt, and unique, in contrast to “little” decisions, which are marginal, commensurable, and additive. We can model big decisions, as well as a wider range of little decisions, if we enlarge our notion of decisionmaking to include legal interpretation, rites‐of‐passage ritual and conversion experience, heroic leadership, critical judgment of works of literature and art, and entrepreneurship. These mo…
Ethnicity and the Frontier in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is described using archetypal or mythic themes-virginity, virility, and purity-drawn in part from American historiography of the western part of the United States of America, often called the frontier. These themes have been used to express the contemporary fascination with the ethnic populations of Los Angeles, and they suggest a connection between the Eastern concern with ethnicity and the Western concern with the frontier
The Elementary Structures of Particles
This Note points out a homology of structure employed by elementary particle physicists and by social anthropologists, and suggests its origin in a systemic order reflecting a `plenitude' of nature, and a non-degeneracy of names
The possibility of doom
Where Do Centers Come From
A 'center' is a marked place in space or time or in a collection of objects, and surrounding it is a structure or pattern that supports it. The questions that concern us here are: 'Why are there centers at all?' 'Why is a center at a particular X?' Historical and combinatorial processes of centralization are reviewed, and a phenomenology and mechanisms are provided. Models considered include: stochastic markets with increasing returns to scale, c…
The Inner Game of Writing
Analytical work requires a peculiar sort of writing: First, its audience is busy, unlikely to reread something to see if it makes sense. And the audience is rather well defined in its concerns, whether they be decision makers or scholars. Second, deadlines are set by other bureaucratic and political agendas, and a document that is good enough and on time is valuable. Late is worthless. Hence there is finite time to do the work. There may be no ex…
Marginalism and discontinuity
Contingency in Planning
Theorems as meaningful cultural artifacts
Segmentation and Filtering into Neighborhoods as Processes of Percolation and Diffusion
A set of models is reviewed in which orderly urban phenomena are accounted for in terms of noise (randomness, stochastic processes): segmentation as a process of runs in random processes (percolation); filtering as a process of random walk and so diffusion, and as a Markov process. In particular, 'continuity' of the spatial price envelope, a truism of real estate, leads to the diffusion equation. No foreordained centers, boundaries, or gravity (o…
Doing Physics
Making Physical Objects
Making Physical Objects: The Law of the Excluded Middle, Dumbing-Up the World, & Handles, Tools, and Fetishes Martin H. Krieger (bio) I take conventional gender to be structural—that structure, by the way, entrenched socially by a high prestige subculture, that subculture being mathematized natural science and, being a subculture, relecting in turn the larger culture’s categorial normative system of gender, one that insists that mixture is perver…
What Does Jerusalem Have to Do With Athens
Making a Paradigmatic Convention Normal
The Argument Most lay users of statistics think in terms of means (averages), variances or the square of the standard deviation, and Gaussians or bell-shaped curves. Such conventions are entrenched by statistical practice, by deep mathematical theorems from probability, and by theorizing in the various natural and social sciences. I am not claiming that the particular conventions (here, the statistics) we adopt are arbitrary. Entrenchment can be …
Planning and Design as the Manufacture of Transcendence
The traditions of design—in natural science, computation, theology, architecture, and literature and art—provide models for some aspects of planning. These models are especially concerned with order, coherence, meaning, structure, and judgment, and parallels or homologies among them. They also show how the making of wholeness (the “manufacture of transcendence”) is in tension with contingency, fetishism, and failure
Foundations of Complex-Systems Theories
Geschichte Asiens
Im Zuge der Globalisierung rücken die einzelnen Erdteile immer stärker in das öffentliche Bewusstsein. Die vorliegende Einführung beschäftigt sich mit dem größten Kontinent der Erde: Asien. Die Darstellung reicht von den frühen Gemeinwesen Mesopotamiens und des Industales bis zu den heutigen hoch entwickelten Staaten am Indischen Ozean und seinen Randmeeren. Der Band ist in zwei Hauptabschnitte gegliedert: historische Grunderfahrungen und Einzelr…
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