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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... car tyre to safely pump concrete into the sky.* I have to admit that every time I think of this, I picture a cola-mint volcano, but I have been assured that it doesn't look anything like that. Shame, really. For the fully-formed pieces ...
... car tyre to safely pump concrete into the sky.* I have to admit that every time I think of this, I picture a cola-mint volcano, but I have been assured that it doesn't look anything like that. Shame, really. For the fully-formed pieces ...
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... car and its passengers, along with electronics and safety components to operate the whole thing smoothly and ... car. For our skyscraper, let's go with a cabled elevator. Luckily the building is short enough for a single elevator car to ...
... car and its passengers, along with electronics and safety components to operate the whole thing smoothly and ... car. For our skyscraper, let's go with a cabled elevator. Luckily the building is short enough for a single elevator car to ...
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... cars to the correct floors using a mathematical program called (unsurprisingly) an elevator algorithm. This offers the car three options: (1) continue travelling in the same direction while there are remaining requests, (2)
... cars to the correct floors using a mathematical program called (unsurprisingly) an elevator algorithm. This offers the car three options: (1) continue travelling in the same direction while there are remaining requests, (2)
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... car is ultra-light and moves using clever control software and a powerful slim magnet motor (we'll come back to how ... cars operate in the same shaft, and elevators that don't need a counterweight, saving valuable space in the process ...
... car is ultra-light and moves using clever control software and a powerful slim magnet motor (we'll come back to how ... cars operate in the same shaft, and elevators that don't need a counterweight, saving valuable space in the process ...
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... cars off the roads every year for 25 years'.* Not every greenification option needs to be super high-tech. One material that I think we're going to hear a lot more about is bioreceptive concrete. We've all seen dark spots of fungi or ...
... cars off the roads every year for 25 years'.* Not every greenification option needs to be super high-tech. One material that I think we're going to hear a lot more about is bioreceptive concrete. We've all seen dark spots of fungi or ...
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