Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the MetropolisBloomsbury Publishing, 11. kol 2016. - Broj stranica: 288 Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work? Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that help us communicate at the speed of light – but most of us are too busy to notice. Science and the City is your guidebook to that hidden world, helping you to uncover some of the remarkable technologies that keep the world's great metropolises moving. Laurie Winkless takes us around cities in six continents to find out how they're dealing with the challenges of feeding, housing, powering and connecting more people than ever before. In this book, you'll meet urban pioneers from history, along with today's experts in everything from roads to time, and you will uncover the vital role science has played in shaping the city around you. But more than that, by exploring cutting-edge research from labs across the world, you'll build your own vision of the megacity of tomorrow, based on science fact rather than science fiction. Science and the City is the perfect read for anyone curious about the world they live in. |
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... carbon (3.5–4.5 per cent) along with other impurities. It is soft and very brittle, not particularly useful for a construction material, but we'll come back to it. •. Cast iron contains slightly less carbon (2–3.5 per cent) as well as up ...
... carbon (3.5–4.5 per cent) along with other impurities. It is soft and very brittle, not particularly useful for a construction material, but we'll come back to it. •. Cast iron contains slightly less carbon (2–3.5 per cent) as well as up ...
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... carbon, making them harder than wrought iron, yet malleable and flexible, unlike cast iron. So these are potentially ... carbon in the pig iron (by forming carbon dioxide, unreliable Co in 2 ), practice. leaving a The molten other ...
... carbon, making them harder than wrought iron, yet malleable and flexible, unlike cast iron. So these are potentially ... carbon in the pig iron (by forming carbon dioxide, unreliable Co in 2 ), practice. leaving a The molten other ...
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... carbon fibre cable, dubbed 'ultrarope', was launched, and by 2015 it was being installed in supertall structures in Jeddah and Auckland. Carbon fibre is exactly what it sounds like – a fibre made with thin strands of carbon (even ...
... carbon fibre cable, dubbed 'ultrarope', was launched, and by 2015 it was being installed in supertall structures in Jeddah and Auckland. Carbon fibre is exactly what it sounds like – a fibre made with thin strands of carbon (even ...
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... carbon dioxide, and yes, they look beautiful, * The inventor of the Green Wall system is Stanley Hart White, a Professor of Landscape Architecture who patented his system in 1938. but the reality is that, ecologically, many living walls ...
... carbon dioxide, and yes, they look beautiful, * The inventor of the Green Wall system is Stanley Hart White, a Professor of Landscape Architecture who patented his system in 1938. but the reality is that, ecologically, many living walls ...
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Chapter 2 Switch | 47 |
Chapter 3 Wet | 85 |
Chapter 4 Way | 121 |
Chapter 5 Drive | 157 |
Chapter 6 Loco | 191 |
Chapter 7 Connect | 227 |
Chapter 8 City | 263 |
Further Reading | 271 |
Acknowledgements | 281 |
Index | 283 |
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