Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the MetropolisCities 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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Wood was our first true construction material, and it's never really gone away. For bigger structures, though, stone and brick dominated for millennia, but they required a lot of preparation – stone had to be machined into blocks, ...
Wood was our first true construction material, and it's never really gone away. For bigger structures, though, stone and brick dominated for millennia, but they required a lot of preparation – stone had to be machined into blocks, ...
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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 to 2 per cent silicon, which makes it hard but brittle ...
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 to 2 per cent silicon, which makes it hard but brittle ...
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Because of all these considerations, concrete has become truly ubiquitous in the construction industry, and is a favourite of skyscraper-builders the world over. Its mechanical properties mean that it can be used in most loadbearing ...
Because of all these considerations, concrete has become truly ubiquitous in the construction industry, and is a favourite of skyscraper-builders the world over. Its mechanical properties mean that it can be used in most loadbearing ...
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... but they don't have a direct role in keeping the building upright. And they do look rather gorgeous, so we definitely need some for our construction project. Construct Now that we've collected enough materials to build our skyscraper,
... but they don't have a direct role in keeping the building upright. And they do look rather gorgeous, so we definitely need some for our construction project. Construct Now that we've collected enough materials to build our skyscraper,
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In addition, the core made the construction process easier: because its width remains constant, the floor segments immediately surrounding it could be repeated over almost its entire height, and it's much easier to mass-produce a ...
In addition, the core made the construction process easier: because its width remains constant, the floor segments immediately surrounding it could be repeated over almost its entire height, and it's much easier to mass-produce a ...
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| Naslov | Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis |
| Autor | Laurie Winkless |
| Izdanje | ponovljeni tisak |
| Izdavač | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1472913221, 9781472913227 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 288 |
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