Using a scenario method, it envisions multiple futures unfolding over time to create a new town fabric that supports plurality and spontaneity.
Such a systems-level approach is needed to create an "information fabric" that supports novel research, the training of healthcare and life science professionals, and the delivery of care both within and beyond organizational boundaries.
War and conflict tear away the social fabric that supports women and families, creating instability.
But unless we rebuild the connective fabric that supports a healthy society, create the conditions for meaningful work and family life for as many as possible and protect the most vulnerable, a new drug epidemic will always be just around the corner.
Look for bras in smooth, stretchy fabrics that will support you without digging in.
But in the long term, they'd be wiser to use soft power, working with a range of partners to co-create the social and institutional fabric that will support their growth as entrepreneurs in emerging markets have done.
Cassel provides early evidence of a costume that supported and controlled the body but which hampered performance; contrast this, nearly one hundred years later, with twenty-first century compression fabrics that still act to support and control the body but this time in order to enhance physical performance.
Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury have signed up to a range of actions to increase their ranges of Fair Trade and organic fashion, the take-back and recovery of unwanted clothing and supporting fibres and fabrics that enable clothing recycling.
We propose the Self-Routing Fabric (SRF) infrastructure that supports query execution with multiple plans without physically constructing their topologies nor using a central router like Eddy.
If we are prepared for a "long, troubled march to freedom," then why, in our haste to topple Iraq's dictator, did we devastate the social fabric that supported at least a tentative cohabitation in Iraq?
