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ALBION DISTRICT LIBRARY BY PERKINS + WILL IS A 2018 COTE TOP TEN RECIPIENT. IMAGE: DOUBLESPACE PHOTOGRAPHY

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The Committee on the Environment (COTE®) is an AIA Knowledge Community working for architects, allied professionals, and the public to achieve climate action and climate justice through design. We believe that design excellence is the foundation of a healthy, sustainable, and equitable future. Our work promotes design strategies that empower all AIA members to realize the best social and environmental outcomes with the clients and the communities they serve.

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How a lack of jobs is changing the world

  • 1.  How a lack of jobs is changing the world

    Posted 02-17-2017 10:12 AM

    How a Lack of Jobs is Changing the World - The Future of Work

    The end of work as we know it may be responsible for the collapse of  the existing world order. Fewer people finding jobs or enough income for a living has destabilized the European Union, has fueled Brexit and has determined the US election.

    There are several explanations for job scarcity and insufficient wages. One points to international trade as the culprit; another identifies technology as a job killer. Politicians promising jobs, jobs, jobs differ on which explanation they use for the job crisis, but all assume that they can create...

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    How a Lack of Jobs is Changing the World - The Future of Work

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    Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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