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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... keep the heat outside in summer and inside in winter. The coatings needed to achieve these properties are added to ... keeping the building upright. And they do look rather gorgeous, so we definitely need some for our construction ...
... keep the heat outside in summer and inside in winter. The coatings needed to achieve these properties are added to ... keeping the building upright. And they do look rather gorgeous, so we definitely need some for our construction ...
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... keep it simple, let's build our skyscraper on nice, solid clay, and use highperformance concrete and steel piles to form our foundations. So now, the skeleton. The classic image of a skyscraper is a steel frame with vertical and ...
... keep it simple, let's build our skyscraper on nice, solid clay, and use highperformance concrete and steel piles to form our foundations. So now, the skeleton. The classic image of a skyscraper is a steel frame with vertical and ...
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... keep a skyscraper as stiff as possible. This limits our materials choices and certainly shaped our design for the Burj.' Key to achieving the required stiffness was a unique structure Baker designed for the building – a buttressed core ...
... keep a skyscraper as stiff as possible. This limits our materials choices and certainly shaped our design for the Burj.' Key to achieving the required stiffness was a unique structure Baker designed for the building – a buttressed core ...
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... keep the structure from swaying; how to keep it stiff. Sometimes you might also have to consider seismic activity, but even in an area with moderate seismic activity, wind usually dominates designs.' The thing is, for some shapes, such ...
... keep the structure from swaying; how to keep it stiff. Sometimes you might also have to consider seismic activity, but even in an area with moderate seismic activity, wind usually dominates designs.' The thing is, for some shapes, such ...
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... keeping the building upright. To understand how it works, we need to think about forces. Some of you might be familiar with the equation: F = ma. What it means is that when an external force, F, is applied to a system with mass, m ...
... keeping the building upright. To understand how it works, we need to think about forces. Some of you might be familiar with the equation: F = ma. What it means is that when an external force, F, is applied to a system with mass, m ...
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