Artur Marques Kalil
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Economics of Design and the Design of Economics
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Americans Who Actually Make Things
The chart above, by Michelle Hopgood of the Martin Prosperity Institute, outlines which manufacturing fields are most prevalent based on detailed data on production occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. […]
Manufacturing work is important. We should applaud the men and women who do it, and do our best to make it better, more engaging, and higher paying. The best manufacturing jobs today look more like knowledge jobs, involving high levels of analytical and social intelligence skill such as team building and developing others.
But manufacturing will not provide a viable economic future, at least not by itself.
For starters, pay for productions workers is below the national average. Their average pay is $33,700 per year, or $16.24 per hour. That compares to an average of $44,410 across all jobs, or $21.35 per hour.
Even more telling: some manufacturing industries pay much better than others. The 66,530 tool and die makers or the 36,200 aircraft assemblers have great jobs earning - $48,710 and $45,230, respectively. But the nearly 150,000 sewing machine operators average just $22,630 a year, or $10.88 per hour.
The number of manufacturing jobs is also falling quickly, despite the government’s best efforts. Roughly 8.2 million American workers are employed in production jobs. This does not count the 408,000 Americans who work in fishing, forestry, and farming occupations. Add them in and it brings the total to 8.6 million workers, roughly 6.5 percent of America’s total labor force of roughly 127 million. That’s down from roughly a third of the workforce in 1950. And it’s projected to decline further, to about 5 percent, by 2020.
Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Michelle Hopgood/Martin Prosperity Institute]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1jsi30NHQ1qcokc4o1_400.jpg)
Americans Who Actually Make Things
The chart above, by Michelle Hopgood of the Martin Prosperity Institute, outlines which manufacturing fields are most prevalent based on detailed data on production occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. […]
Manufacturing work is important. We should applaud the men and women who do it, and do our best to make it better, more engaging, and higher paying. The best manufacturing jobs today look more like knowledge jobs, involving high levels of analytical and social intelligence skill such as team building and developing others.
But manufacturing will not provide a viable economic future, at least not by itself.
For starters, pay for productions workers is below the national average. Their average pay is $33,700 per year, or $16.24 per hour. That compares to an average of $44,410 across all jobs, or $21.35 per hour.
Even more telling: some manufacturing industries pay much better than others. The 66,530 tool and die makers or the 36,200 aircraft assemblers have great jobs earning - $48,710 and $45,230, respectively. But the nearly 150,000 sewing machine operators average just $22,630 a year, or $10.88 per hour.
The number of manufacturing jobs is also falling quickly, despite the government’s best efforts. Roughly 8.2 million American workers are employed in production jobs. This does not count the 408,000 Americans who work in fishing, forestry, and farming occupations. Add them in and it brings the total to 8.6 million workers, roughly 6.5 percent of America’s total labor force of roughly 127 million. That’s down from roughly a third of the workforce in 1950. And it’s projected to decline further, to about 5 percent, by 2020.
Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Michelle Hopgood/Martin Prosperity Institute]
Manaus is a free trade zone “island” in the middle of the Amazon. While we have hundreds of cities in need of development along free trade international lines, a city meant to be controlled is expanding beyond that boundary.
Creative businesses in DC accuse Living Social of using Walmart tactics to dominate market.
Infographic that shows the number of new inhabitants of cities per hour.
(via humanscalecities)
…si bien puede ser discutible si es o no es Arquitectura lo que se construye y lo que se hace para resolver la pobreza habitacional, en la forma en que se plantea el problema en nuestros paises, de lo que no hay dudas es que en este trabajo hacen falta arquitectos.
La discusion sobre si el producto es o no es Arquitectura puede quedar para momentos mas distendidos, mientras se sigue trabajando.
[…it may very well be debatable if Architecture is or is not what is built and what is done to resolve habitational poverty, in the form that the problem is planted in our countries, in which there is doubtlessly a lack of architects.
The discussion as to whether the product is Architecture or not can fall to more prolonged times, meanwhile, the work continues.]
Animation of urban migration patterns 1950 - 2040. What’s the role of tactical urbanism in this future?
Animation by DoTank.
1950年至2040年間的都會遷徙模式動畫，未來策略性都市生活會扮演什麼角色？
All of my DC-area childhood hangouts are closing! Rio, Rockville and White Flint Mall: DONE.
(Source: theparisreview.org)
Comparison of American and Canadian Homes
American vs. Canadian Homeowners
(via urbanresolve)
The Tube House Concept
Competition boards proposing emergency or temporary housing made of prefabricated concrete blocks.
(Source: designeconomics)
The Pentagon’s New Map
In my search for world maps and the global situation of development, I came about Thomas P.M. Barnett’s The Pentagon’s New Map. In his web site http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/, he talks about the risks of Brazil and Argentina:
3) BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA Both on the bubble between the Gap and the Functioning Core. Both played the globalization game to hilt in nineties and both feel abused now. The danger of falling off the wagon and going self-destructively leftist or rightist is very real. • No military threats to speak of, except against their own democracies (the return of the generals). • South American alliance MERCOSUR tries to carve out its own reality while Washington pushes Free Trade of Americas, but we may have to settle for agreements with Chile or for pulling only Chile into bigger NAFTA. Will Brazil and Argentina force themselves to be left out and then resent it? • Amazon a large ungovernable area for Brazil, plus all that environmental damage continues to pile up. Will the world eventually care enough to step in?
